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...Itchy Fingers. When the scientists gathered in New Mexico to test the first atomic bomb, they weren't entirely sure just what would happen. A few suspected that the nuclear chain reaction might spread from the bomb's uranium, flash around the world in the air and burn every living thing to a crisp. One enthusiastic physicist, famed Enrico Fermi, casually offered to bet his associates 10-to-1 that it would. He got no takers...
...economy-minded Congressmen within earshot, Ike Eisenhower made a "flash guess" that a military establishment under a single command could be maintained with 25% fewer men than under divided command. "With integration we can buy more security for less money." When he was through, eager listeners in the Senate caucus room scrambled for transcripts of his statement...
...gadget is a ring-shaped, gas-filled flash tube around the lens. When the shutter opens, a whopping charge of electricity (2,000 volts) surges through the tube from a condenser, with a light as bright as the sun. The flash is so bright that the natural lighting of the subject doesn't matter. A child can move his head or blink his eyes without blurring the picture. The flash lasts only about one-25,000th of a second. Photographed at this speed, even the humming blades of an electric fan appear to be standing still...
...past and present. And his hard, brilliant, unsentimental, highly polished music had just the qualities the Bolsheviks liked. He soon became the most influential composer in Russia, and even non-Russians had to admit that no other composer in the world could match him in technical adroitness and flash...
...TIME [Sept. 17], you can see how dreadfully the latter distorts the sculptured head, elongating it from tip of chin to tip of crown, what would amount, I think, to at least two inches. . . . I will say, however, that the plaque was extremely hard to photograph, especially with flash, as the light would bounce off the bronze into the lens of the camera. That is undoubtedly the reason the A.P. photographer took the picture from such an extreme offside angle, thereby distorting the sculptured head...