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While plain civilians watched with fascinated concern, Army and Navy men got ready to explode the fourth atomic bomb. If the thing acted in the pattern of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, they had picked a good, safe spot-Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, over 4,000 mi. from the U.S. shore. Wildlife lovers were disturbed. But Hanson Baldwin pointed out in the New York Times: "Great numbers of fish and birds will be killed . . . but they will die that man may live...
...difference lies in the fact that London nowadays burns far less fog-making soft coal. Although the yearly discharge of soot and ashes is down to 300 tons per sq. mi., London's diligent Smoke Abatement Society is by no means satisfied. For one thing, deaths from respiratory diseases increase during foggy weather. But, as a Smoke Abatement spokesman unequivocally stated: "The most injurious effect of fog is more subtle-in obstructing sunlight and daylight...
...brightest star of Victor's sky is the Met's Jugoslav-born soprano Zinka Mi-lanov. Her Pace, pace, mio Dio from La Forza del Destine and Voi lo sapete from Cavalleria Rusticana, helped by modern engineering, are improvements over most of the collectors' classics from the Golden Age. She also teams with the Met's Margaret Harshaw in a duet from Norma, and with Jan Peerce in the Miserere from // Trovatore. Others: Kerstin Thorborg, Blanche Thebom, Eleanor Steber, Alexander Kipnis...
FRANKLIN C. ERICKSON rM, i mi XT/^ Professor of Geography Chapel Hill...
...Brazil, biggest in size (3,286,170 sq. mi.) and population (44,460,000), replaced swart little Getulio Vargas, its President and dictator since 1930 (see above...