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...found unmistakable evidence that Munsell, now 55, had not become a horny-handed laborer after all. He owned a remodeled Manhattan brownstone house, rented the top two floors, and was ensconced in a lower-floor apartment with a good library and all the comforts of home. Where had he gotten the money? His friends said it had come from his mother and from other relatives. Munsell, they added, had changed his attitude slightly after a few years of poverty. Having become poor, some of them suggested, he now valued a buck and hungered for the inheritance just like any other...
...also happens when atoms are given electrical charges and pushed to enormous velocity by cyclotrons or other "particle accelerators." So Richter may have gotten his "high temperatures" and "thermonuclear reactions" merely by the old trick of accelerating charged particles. Just after Perón's first announcement, Richter hinted that an article by British Physicist Sir John Cockcroft told what line he was following. Cockcroft described how, in 1932, he shot protons against a lithium target and turned the lithium into helium plus energy...
...material-and Argentina is a producer of lithium. The main defect in the method: only a few particles in a million prove effective, reducing the efficiency of such processes to the vanishing point. Proof by Isotope. The consensus last week seemed to be that Physicist Richter may well have gotten promising results on a tiny laboratory scale and jumped to the false conclusion that the Cockcroft process, or something like it, could be scaled up to full production size. But the atomic scientists, a cautious clan, were still reserving final judgment. "The proof," said Dr. James R. Arnold of Chicago...
...hearings in Washington this week, they will get their chance to make their denials on the record. Meanwhile, said the committee, it would be only too happy to correct its report in the case of anyone whose name had been used by the Communists without permission, or who had gotten out of the Red fronts when he discovered what the Reds were doing...
...actors try hard to deal with the strained situation into which Mr. Stewart has thrust them, but they are even further burdened because the author has sought to redeem his efforts by larding the lines with metaphor. The idealist, for example, has "gotten off the merry-go-around" and has "stopped grabbing for the golden ring." By overcoming these difficulties in parts that only border on the convincing, Paul Langton, as the fellow no longer on the carousel, and Ted Newton, the successful businessman, deserve commendation. Also Jocelyn Brando plays well a scene of considerable emotion...