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...Percival C. "Dobie" Keith, a ruddy-faced, blue-eyed engineer with a lock of brown hair over his eye, who bossed the Kellex Corp., the "industrial cooperative" that designed and operated Oak Ridge...
Which town will get the county seat? Which city is the biggest, busiest and best? Rich and raucous is the American tradition of debate on such matters. It sounded a little odd last week in the oak-paneled, semi-ecclesiastical room of London's Church House, where world statesmen were considering where the world's capital-the permanent seat of UNO-should...
TIME'S own war veterans have been coming home, too. Not quite 20% of them have returned, so far, but we are getting accustomed to former office boys with oak leaves on their shoulders and DSCs on their tunics...
...scientists of Oak Ridge, Tenn. are interested in atomic bombs. They are also interested in science itself. Last week they combined both interests in a telling blast against U.S. military authorities who had just destroyed Japan's cyclotrons. They put the destruction in a class with the German burning of the Louvain Library in 1914 and 1940 as a "wanton and stupid . . . crime against mankind. . . . Men who cannot distinguish between the usefulness of a research machine and the military importance of a 16-in. gun have no place in positions of authority...
...Oak Ridge, Tenn., cradle of the bomb, the Man in the Street was quoted by a newspaper survey: "We spent two billion dollars and a lot of time on it, so why give the secret away?" ¶ Dorothy Thompson declared that the U.S. could not give the bomb away because it did not own it: the world's scientists had given it to the "western world" to keep in sacred trust. Most scientists disagreed with her. Later, in a bit of atomic whimsy, Columnist Thompson wrote: "Scene: A ward in Bellevue. A screaming bearded gentleman is being hustled into...