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...others: Clinton Laboratory at Oak Ridge, Tenn.; Argonne National Laboratory at Chicago; Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island...
Squirrels doggedly went on gathering nuts. Oak trees continued to shed their leaves, though with an embarrassed air as if committing some social indiscretion. But other flora and fauna rebelliously refused to believe that it was really autumn. Shad (rarely seen after August) swam back up New Jersey streams, querulously tried to spawn. The giddier of Washington's famed cherry trees blossomed. Dogs panted in upstate New York, which had been blanketed by snow four weeks before. Flies came dazedly back to life, mosquitoes whined, roses and lilacs budded. An ostrich in the Cleveland zoo squatted with springtime ceremony...
Next week the heavy oak doors will swing open on the Met's 62nd season. Out front there will be strapless gowns in the boxes, and straphangers in the gallery; backstage there will be extras in armor, seamstresses in a hurry and props in the way. A good many of the fur-wrapped natives in the Diamond Horseshoe will be there under the same grim or triumphal compulsion that gets them to church once a year for Easter services. A good many of the gallerygoers will clump up 119 steps like pious martyrs, sure that they are the only...
Hiroshima was only one laboratory for studying the biological implications of the Atomic Age. The U.S. center would be Oak Ridge, where the U.S. Public Health Service is setting up an elaborate research program. Its principal object: to determine the effect of the new radiations on living cells, including reproductive cells. Out of its work might come refutation (or confirmation) of Dr. Muller's gloomy prophecies...
Planned Economy. In Oak Park, Ill., Ellis Denney proposed that the town buy parking meters to get money to buy parking lots to eliminate parking meters...