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...troops out to the AEC proving grounds. The loudspeaker voice nicknamed "Big Brother" boomed out instructions: sit down, back to the blast, count three after the flash, then swing around, but don't get up. Some of the men played cards, others tried to read, played nervously with Geiger counters, or just stared at the dust-pluming jeeps scurrying from group to group...
...week's end, close to 2,000 readers had swamped the Alsops with answers (most of them wrong). The winner: Theodore Geiger, 38, National Planning Assoc. research chief, who was first to guess that the quote was from Theodor Mommsen's History of Rome, the opponents Rome (Russia) and Carthage (the U.S.). The victor: Rome...
...University of Tennessee's Oak Ridge experiment station, hens fed with mildly radioactive mash are laying radioactive eggs. This tracer technique, the university said last week, has helped its poultry scientists to follow the intimate workings of the hen's egg-making machinery. By skilled use of Geiger counters, they can follow the "hot" feed as it circulates inside the hen. They can measure it accurately as it forms into...
...seems to exude the kind of allure that sets the mysterious Geiger counters which measure glamor clicking like subway turnstiles. Says Starmaker David Selznick: "She is going to be a big star. She supplies the need and hunger of a kind of glamor girl. She has a genuine glamor atmosphere." Says an Italian movie fan: "I call her the aperitif. She stimulates...
Authored by Beardsley Rumi and Theodore Geiger it is entitled "The Five Percent...