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Louisville, Ky...
...Hill Gail, Calumet's prize three-year-old, the $10,000 Phoenix Handicap, at Lexington, Ky. Warming up for the Kentucky Derby, Hill Gail closed with a stretch drive under Jockey Eddie Arcaro to equal Allegro's 14-year-old track record (1:10⅔) for six furlongs...
...Ohio Valley plant (cost: $1 billion) will separate explosive U-235 from natural uranium by the gaseous-diffusion process which is used at Oak Ridge and will also be used at the plant now being built near Paducah, Ky. The other AEC production plants at Hanford, Wash. and on the Savannah River are entirely different: they are reactors that make plutonium (and may make tritium for hydrogen bombs) through nuclear reactions caused by free neutrons given off by fissioning uranium. The fact that the AEC is building both kinds of plants suggests that...
RICHARD M. KAIN Louisville, Ky...
Norman is a lanky boy of 13 who has been playing basketball this season at Madisonville (Ky.) Junior High, and hopes to play football next fall. Two years ago, despite surgery and X rays, Norman was wasting away with a spreading cancer of the thyroid. Then his doctor got him into the little (30-bed) hospital at Oak Ridge, Tenn., which is set aside for atomic medicine. There, Norman had an "atomic cocktail"-radioactive sodium iodide dissolved in water. The cancer colonies soaked up the iodine; from each radioactive atom, beta particles and gamma rays shot out to destroy cancerous...