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When cotton, contaminated with natural radioactivity, is tested over a series of days, its activity diminishes according to a definite rule that depends on the "decay rate" of the elements involved. The curve of decay, plotted on a chart, normally consists of portions of two straight lines. On nine occasions in 1951 and early 1952, Holter & Glasscock collected samples that gave far from normal curves. Study showed that they were the decay curves of very complex mixtures of radioactive substances. The fission products remaining after an atomic explosion fit this description exactly...
...party leaders have also taken the most important ministries (second row of chart). Vishinsky has been bumped down by Molotov, who again becomes Foreign Minister. Marshal Vasilevsky was similarly demoted to make room for Marshal Bulganin. Other familiar names among the first deputy ministers (third row): Jacob Malik, former U.N. delegate, and Marshal Zhukov, conqueror of Berlin...
...Well, it all started last Saturday, son. If you remember, it was a pleasant spring day and I was standing by my chair when a high university official came in and asked for a haircut. After quickly checking my chart I noted that this particular man had not been in several months, so I naturally started off with the recent presidential decision involving Formosa...
Because of this, a good number of PBH members are disturbed by the announcement that the new University Professor of Christianity will chart Brooks House policy to a much larger extent then the Chairman of the PBH Advisory Board did in past years. Partly, this furrowing of brows is the natural suspicion of any change. But it is also a sincere, though somewhat automatic, response to a seemingly added dose of the denominational in the Brooks House...
...most distracting sounds were the bugles from the direction the parade was supposed to come from. On Capitol Hill, the G.O.P. 83rd Congress organized like a disciplined advance guard, in amazing harmony. From a hotel suite in Manhattan, Citizen Eisenhower was making decisions which would ultimately chart the course for Washington and the nation...