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...chin as the Government began its case. Tall and pale, Julius Rosenberg, 33, drummed on the counsel table; his wife, Mrs. Ethel Green-glass Rosenberg, indicted with them as a fellow conspirator, was the calmest. These three, the Government charged, were part of the spy transmission belt for which Physicist Klaus Fuchs (see SCIENCE) was a prime source and Chemist Harry Gold a key courier. The Russian contact for the ring was Anatoli Yakovlev, who was wartime Soviet vice consul in New York. "The evidence of the treasonable acts of each of these three defendants is overwhelming," U.S. Attorney Irving...
...David Bradley is a physician (not a physicist) who attended the Bikini atom-bomb tests in 1946 and wrote the atomic scare-book, No Place to Hide. Last week, more scared than ever, he told an audience at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn, that one of the recent atomic explosions in Nevada was 500 times more powerful than a conventional (or Model-T) Abomb. Therefore, reasoned Bradley, it must have been a hydrogen bomb. He based both premise and conclusion on the fact that the bomb broke windows in Las Vegas, nearly ten times farther from the explosion than...
Specious reasoning, retorted Physicist Ralph E. Lapp, author of the un-scared book, Must We Hide?. Explosions often have freakish effects. Even comparatively feeble ones have freakishly broken windows many miles away, leaving nearer windows unbroken. One cause: an "inversion" (layer of warm air) in the atmosphere, that reflects shock waves downward -and may concentrate them...
...department re-examine its courses. Moreover, though enrollments have more than doubled, to 24,394, he wanted classes kept small (ideal: no more than 30 students). To keep classes small, Stoddard more than doubled the faculty, and brought in some top men while he was about it. Among them: Physicist Louis Ridenour of the University of Pennsylvania, Physiologist Andrew C. Ivy of Northwestern, Pianist Soulima (son of Igor) Stravinsky. Stoddard set up a new department of preventive medicine and public health, an institute, of public affairs and an institute of labor and industrial relations...
...flying saucers, said Physicist Liddel, were actually giant plastic balloons called Skyhooks, which the Navy has been sending aloft since 1947 with electronic instruments to record cosmic rays. As the 100-ft. balloons soar higher & higher (maximum height: 19 miles) they expand, and are often pushed along by high-altitude winds at speeds up to 200 m.p.h. When seen from below, particularly when reflecting light rays from its underside, a Skyhook looks exactly like a big saucer...