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Rummaging petulantly through a pile of loot, the once-polite pair cast aside a handful of unsuitable rings and brooches. "Junk," they murmured, then left with 12 million francs' worth of jewelry. As a parting insult to their uncooperative hostess, they drove...
Admirers of glib, arm-flailing Evangelist Dr. Billy Graham, 31, swear his voice can penetrate a case-hardened conscience like a jackhammer going through a pile of schist. Last week Dr. Billy appeared before a joint session of the Georgia legislature to urge an old-fashioned revival among the state's sinners, and within two hours the senate had passed a bill to make the state bone dry. Cried Senator Tom E. Rich, during the breast-beating which preceded a 34-to-5 vote: "I used to go home drunk and stumble over . . . my children...
...press conferences, parts of them off-the-record and now published for the first time. Roosevelt would receive the reporters with easy informality-joking about their having had to be fingerprinted, or chortling with glee ("You stepped right into it") when a reporter asked if a large pile of papers, which turned out to be pardons, was for the press. But when the reporters began to dig into ticklish subjects, F.D.R. could be chilly, huffy or schoolmasterish. Once he told them: "Now mind you, it is not important for the people to know whether my left eyebrow is raised...
...ever picnicked on the crest of a sulfur pile, you'll realize why the Harvard-Radcliffe Chemical Society this week opened a lunchroom in the basement of the Mallinckrodt Laboratory. The lab slaves, whose day is so crammed for time that they must eat hurried box lunches, finally have a room to eat in that's out of smell of the salts and ethers of their profession. One of a number of projects financed by the proceeds from the laboratories' coke machine, the lunchroom has curtains, a radio, a hotplate, and space enough to hold 20 people. The Society claims...
...ingredient tritium (hydrogen 3) is radioactive and is excessively rare in nature, but it is not hard to make. One method is to bombard lithium 6 with neutrons in a uranium pile. The reaction yields tritium and helium, which can be separated by simple chemistry. This job could be done in the plutonium-making piles at Hanford, but probably will be done in a special pile built without difficulty for the purpose...