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The world's first nuclear chain reaction, according to all the history books, was man-made and occurred in a closely guarded makeshift laboratory under Stagg Field at the University of Chicago on Dec. 2, 1942. Last week a former high commissioner of the French Atomic Energy Commission took...
"Bye-bye, I'm free, free as a bird. I'm going to have a ball in New York," said Martha Mitchell to Washington Post Columnist Maxine Cheshire as she packed up to leave the capital for good. After several months of unaccustomed silence, the chatty wife of...
Forgery. By day, Mullen methodically collected evidence. Each night he took a roundabout route to the Tribune Tower a mile away and recorded his findings in a carefully guarded book. Twice he was followed by board employees, but they concluded that he was going there only to meet a girl...
The setup is classic. "The lady's remains repose on my bathroom floor," Attorney Peter Hibben tells us, "in my own locked, barred, closed-circuit-TV-guarded apartment." The body is costumed like the leading light of a Belle Epoque bordello. Carmina Burana swells in from the living-room...
The Americans, new in the "national team business," were the mystery of international rowing circles as they broke camp in the wilds of Hanover. N.H. and headed to pre--Olympic competitions in Germany. The Americans, though long on enthusiasm (guarded as it might be). were short on both size and...