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...forbidden "City of the Atomic Bomb" (Oak Ridge, Tenn.) looked the same last week as it had 14 months ago when its product smashed Hiroshima. Its slapdash houses were better painted, its hillbilly help more sophisticated. But MPs still patrolled its "perimeter." Scientists still bit their tongues in midsentence, lest a secret pop out, and the gigantic, hidden plants still ground out U-235. The chief business was still atomic...
Last week more than 100 atomic scientists gathered at Oak Ridge to confer not about bigger, more frightful bombs, but about the peaceful applications of nuclear physics. The big job now was to spread atomic know-how, make industrialists, educators and the public aware of the benefits atomic discoveries might bring...
Licking Secrecy. Biggest obstacle: "military security." Oak Ridge scientists complain that many atomic "secrets" are already out, that others still jealously held have no military importance. Some argue that if secrecy is continued too long, the U.S. may sit back, cocky and self-assured, while other nations catch up and forge ahead. Their recommendation: release all secrets not strictly military. Then U.S. industry, informed and excited, could climb on the atomic bandwagon and gain an unchallengeable lead, as it has in auto manufacturing...
...level policymakers who boss Oak Ridge may have come to some such decision. One sign: 35 students from universities and industrial corporations were at large last week in the tightly guarded Clinton Laboratories, learning innermost secrets from Director E. P. Wigner. Strict security rules still gag this "College...
...Algonquin became a Manhattan institution, and gave birth to other institutions. Most famed offspring: the Round Table, "a crowd of unusually agreeable folk": Alexander Woollcott, George S. Kaufman, "F.P.A.", Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, Heywood Broun. In the twenties, they lunched together in the Oak Room. But when they died or drifted away, there were always younger wits to dine in the Oak Room and younger actors to sleep where John Barrymore had slept. Despite occasional rough going, the Algonquin usually earned a profit (last year...