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Reverse the Coin. But Dr. Oppenheimer would not have the scientists-even if they could-shut down the lid of their fearful Pandora's chest now, for treasures are there as well as imps of death: "Out of [science's] work there will come . . . things which will improve man's health, ease his labor, and divert and edify him. . . . There is no need to belabor this point, nor its obverse-that out of science there will come, as there has in this last war, a host of instruments of destruction...
...instructor's jaw dropped several inches until it met his chest, "Why, why, why?" he intended. "Never play for the roll. How many times must I tell...
...other side of the world last week, some prisoners got tired of waiting. In Nürnberg, Field Marshal Johannes Blaskowitz, 64, accused of butchering civilians and P.W.s in Poland, threw himself over a prison parapet, fell 30 feet to a tile floor, died of a crushed chest and punctured lungs. Next day, in Paris' Cherche-Midi Prison, General Otto von Stülpnagel, 69, convinced that he would be shot for shooting wartime French hostages, finally succeeded (second try) in hanging himself with strips torn from his bedding and underwear...
...Rape of Lucretia in Chicago last year (TIME, June 9). But Tenor Frederick Jagel, who sings the leading role, was worried: "This is so tough dramatically that it becomes tough musically. If I don't watch my step, I end up with my tongue on my chest...
State and city health boards will open a three-week anti-tuberculosis campaign at the College today, when workers start chest X-raying in the basement of Memorial Church...