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...time the last gavel was rapped, the San Francisco weather had changed and so had the political climate. Ike's campaign was airborne, and Taft's flying bandwagon had taken the stiffest jolt to date. Hardy G.O.P. professionals were not likely to be swayed by either a breach of manners or a fervent speech. But they were just the ones to notice the little shifts, such as the new cordiality between the Ikemen and Earl Warren (who controls 70 California delegates) and the fact that the galleries liked...
Chains. Joe Jang had been expecting to hear something of the sort ever since Chinese Reds had begun extorting money from Chinese in the U.S. Even so, it was "a terrible jolt." His mother's letter did not include a secret symbol used by members of the Jang family if they urgently needed money. But last month a cable from a China-side cousin named Chang arrived in San Francisco. It read: "Your mother asked you cable remittance urgent needed Hong Kong dollars...
...satellite purges that a 100% Muscovite had been picked as the victim. On the surface it looked as if Gottwald had eliminated a dangerous competitor, and there were even people ready to believe that Gottwald was proving himself a potential Tito. More likely, the Kremlin had decided to jolt Czechoslovakia's rulers into meeting Soviet demands by striking down the man who had seemed safest of alL If the most loyal of them all could be convicted of disloyalty, so might men charged with even greater responsibility-President Gottwald, for example. It was entirely possible that before long, Rudolf...
...divided between Britain's Sir John D. Cockcroft and Ulsterman E.T.S. Walton. Working as a team at Cambridge, England, they built a high-voltage machine in 1932, seven years before the discovery of uranium fission, which smashed lithium atoms, turning each into two helium nuclei and a powerful jolt of energy. The Cockcroft-Walton reaction is inefficient, but the energy that it produces is genuinely nuclear, released when mass is turned into energy...
Meanwhile, form 11-C was the biggest jolt to the American gambling fraternity since 1913, when Donerail won the Kentucky Derby...