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Until last week, the world had heard no hint of nonexplosive plutonium. But behind the Manhattan Project's secrecy curtain, it might have been created as early as 1943. Some physicists mentioned plutonium 240, which they thought might be made from the explosive plutonium (Pu-239), or from natural uranium. If it proved inert, like U-238, it could be mixed with Pu-239 to make it non-detonating. There is reason to think that both varieties of plutonium may be produced simultaneously, and ready-mixed...
Boston's multitudinous, intensely parochial Roman Catholics wear their faith on their sleeves, reach for brickbats and shillelaghs at the slightest hint of criticism. But last week, after a telling blast against Boston Catholicism, they scarcely knew what head to crack: the blast had been loosed in the Commonweal, a Catholic weekly. It was signed "Katherine Loughlin," a pseudonym protecting a middleaged, devout, Irish Catholic spinster, her family and a relative who is a priest...
What the Seattle youngsters (and their teachers) accomplished, many another city's educators wanted. Would taxpayers elsewhere take a hint...
Ziegfeld Follies of 1946 (MGM) may not be the "biggest all-star show of all time," as its sponsors strongly hint, but it will do until a bigger one comes along. A super-spectacular, hyper-Hollywood, tnple-Technicolored variety show, it runs for almost two hours. The total impact is calculated to send cinemaddicts reeling home in a state of dizzy satisfaction...
With the melting of the February snows comes a hint of spring this morning with the announcement by the H.A.A. of the spring sports schedule for Crimson Varsity and Junior Varsity teams. Baseball leads the list with thirteen games, including two with Yale, while Jaakko Mikkola's track team is entered in five meets, Tom Bolles' Varsity crew will row in three regattas...