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...your April 16 issue you state: "The center of an exploding atomic bomb is even hotter" than "temperatures of millions of degrees [claimed for the Argentine atomic bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 7, 1951 | 5/7/1951 | See Source »

...point that aroused most suspicion was the mention of "temperatures of millions of degrees." The center of an exploding atomic bomb is even hotter than that, but Richter said he used no uranium, or plutonium made from uranium-the only known means of heating appreciable quantities of matter on earth to a temperature of millions of degrees. And even if that temperature were reached, it would quickly vaporize the walls of any container. So, reasoned U.S. physicists, Richter was probably mistaken on that pivotal point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Energy of the Pampas | 4/16/1951 | See Source »

Some 700 of Berlin's deaf-mutes are members of the church. Once they worshiped in Berlin's Evangelical cathedral, in the Soviet sector. As the cold war grew hotter, many West Berlin members were afraid to go there, so Bartel borrowed St. Matthew's, in the U.S. sector, to hold Sunday afternoon services. Before he retires, he hopes to find and equip a church which the deaf-mute worshipers of West Berlin can call their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Gospel, with Gestures | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Das Rheingold, with Hotter, Svanholm, Pechner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Jan. 29, 1951 | 1/29/1951 | See Source »

...Arabia to find Geigers chasing oil pipeline "pigs" [TIME, Nov. 20]. Interprovincial Pipe Line Co. have had the same done for them on the 500-mile stretch of their new pipeline from Regina, Sask. to the U.S. border, but with the following difference: a radioactive source several hundred times "hotter" was used, for the pipe was three to eight feet underground. My turban had earflaps, for the temperature sometimes dipped to ten below zero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 18, 1950 | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

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