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Elusive Materials. In designing nuclear reactors, Hafstad said, the scientist cannot depend on familiar, well-behaved materials. Most of them are useless. They absorb too many neutrons (and so slow down the reaction) or they are quickly damaged by corrosion, heat or radiation. The AEC is building a special reactor to test the performance of various materials for piping, shielding, etc. Until it has been in operation for some time, reactor designers will not know for certain what materials they dare...
...hypocrisy, cowardliness and "personal vilification . . . even lower than that reached in the columns of the Daily Worker." Budenz had Fordham's "full confidence . . . The Senator had the effrontery, moreover, to pose as a Catholic while publicly enacting this vicious offense against Christian charity." Replied Chavez: "I'll depend on my Creator's judgment on that...
Last week Tito's clogged Communist economy moved NEPwards. It decreed that in the so-called free stores,* prices of goods would be determined in an open market by the producers-the peasants and small factories-rather than by the state. The prices would thus depend entirely, as the Belgrade radio pointed out, on supplies available and on how much money the customers had: the decree would give a "new incentive" to peasants and factories...
...girls would solicit in the 'Cliffe dormitories, bring in Annex material, and sell advertising. Their status will depend on the Dean's Office and Advocate trustees, President Daniel Elisberg '52 disclosed last night...
...last concluded that his students' delicate egos could stand a bit of bruising, the U.S. began to tell off the bad little boys of the EGA class. First to get a tongue-lashing was Greece, where Ambassador Henry Grady warned Premier Sophocles Venizelos that continued ECAid would depend on improved economic and political behavior. Last week the Greeks were joined by two more victims of the new American candor-the Republic of Korea, which was" told to check inflation, and Italy...