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Vice-President Reynolds said yesterday that the final expenses would be within a fraction of one percent of that figure...
Jane Wyman in a blonde wig also realizes only a fraction of the pathetic character she plays. Actors Kennedy and Douglas give polished performances, but they swim against the tide...
Much of the bomb's energy is released as radiation- heat and light, which shoot out from the fire ball a fraction of a second after the explosion. Five miles away, the light glares as brightly as 100 suns; up to half a mile the heat waves sear everything directly in their path. Then, too, comes the flood of gamma rays (nuclear X rays). Trapped at first within the fire ball, these deadly rays burst forth a fraction of a second after the bomb explodes...
...newly purchased stocks. Prices dropped. Hardest hit by the new selling wave were the stocks of television companies; they tumbled as much as 4½ points. In two jittery hours, the blue-chip Dow-Jones industrial index also dropped 2.39 points to 208.59, wiping out all but a small fraction of its earlier gain. As this week's trading began, television stocks again dropped as much as 4¼ points on fears that war might curtail production of TV sets...
...Photographs have long since crowded out most sketches, a trend not appreciated (by Ingram. "The camera," says he, "never sees many things that the eye sees. An artist can give a composite effect of a scene. The camera gets only what is happening at one particular fraction of a second." To keep costs down, Ingram hires photographers and artists on a free-lance basis, gets along with a permanent staff of twelve. That is one big reason why the News (and its subsidiaries) last year cleared $300,000 after taxes...