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Last week the University of Michigan started a fund-raising drive for its "Phoenix Project": a nonGovernment, nonsecret center of nuclear research. Already, $750,000 has been given or pledged in a drive for a fund...
...sticking to the numerous aspects of atomic energy which have nothing to do with bombmaking (e.g., radioactive tracers), Phoenix Project hopes to keep itself unhampered by restrictions. If its scientists stumble on something of "weapons" importance, they will toss it to the Government as if it were a radioactive potato...
Reproachful Looks. In thirsty Arizona, the most successful is Charles Barnes of Phoenix, a first-class flying man who, with 17 airplanes equipped or being equipped for rainmaking, had seven projects going full blast from Texas to California. Another big rainmaker is Irving Krick of Pasadena, Calif., who has projects in New Mexico, Colorado, California, Idaho and Washington. Best publicized of the lot is Harvard's Dr. Wallace Howell, hired last March by New York City (at $100 a day for a maximum of 15 days a month) when the great reservoirs in the Catskills and Westchester County were...
...column box across its front page, Phoenix' Arizona Republic (circ. 63,016) printed this affecting letter from "just a little boy," supposedly in Miami, Ariz. The morning paper gravely explained that it was breaking its rule against publishing unsigned letters because "this little plea, scrawled and misspelled in pencil on a bit of limp paper, defies routine handling...
...Pulliam also owns Phoenix' afternoon paper, the Gazette, the Indianapolis Star and News, the Muncie Star and Press, the Vincennes (Ind.) Sun-Commercial, the Huntington Herald-Press...