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...hats: 1) A crystal plastic job, trimmed with red flowers and green plastic leaves, tied together with red wool; designed by Mrs. G. Burleigh Drummond, Oak Ridge...
General Leslie Groves, Grand Panjandrum of military atomics, made a minor concession to the cause of science. The Oak Ridge Laboratory, he said last week, was working on an experimental plant for producing atomic power. It should be finished in a year...
...many scientists, though interested in atomic power, are more interested in the radioactive materials from the Oak Ridge chain-reacting pile. These promise a scientific revolution...
...Oak Ridge (Tenn.) High School, which grew up by the light of the atom bomb, had a visit from atomic chemist Charles Coryell one day last fall. He told the students: "Unless the atom bomb is controlled for peace, one out of three persons in this auditorium will probably die of the effects of atomic energy." The Oak Ridge school kids, soberly shocked, organized a Youth Council on the Atomic Crisis (which they promptly nicknamed...
...editorial in the Oak Leaf, the school paper, explained what they were up to: "We do not want to die a useless death. We cannot be indifferent. We are alarmed that this terrible menace has not been generally recognized. . . . Our fathers [mostly scientists or workers in the A-bomb development] have told us that the atom bomb can wreck the world, and we believe them...