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...little clump. All the amoebae for microns* around stop their feeding and dividing. Like city people running to the scene of an accident, they swarm toward the growing center (see cut). Some join end to end and stream in gay little chains. By thousands and tens of thousands they pile up in a heap...
...year ago last week the Clinton Laboratories at Oak Ridge, Tenn. began selling radioactive isotopes made in its uranium pile. Already, these atomic by-products have had important influences on U.S. science, and have made possible many hitherto impossible research jobs...
Although Robert Lincoln lent the vast pile of papers to Nicolay and Hay, who had them for 27 years, he refused to make the collection public. According to legend, he was afraid that Indiana's late Senator Albert Beveridge would use some item to write something unfavorable about the Lincoln family...
...recent coal-mine wage boosts, said steelmen, were the last straw on a pile of increased costs which they have been absorbing. The increases in steel wages last spring, said Republic, had amounted to "approximately $4.50 per ton of steel" and had caused a drop in the second quarter profits (see Earnings...
...Blanchard & Glenn Davis, the touchdown twins, doing time on the Great Rock Candy Pile, where they are making a movie for Paramount, had one of those prison-type pictures made. They will soon have to give up sweets, though, to play with the Eastern College All-Stars against the professional New York Giants...