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At his sixth press conference, the President again made a lot of news-enough to give the New York Times nine major stories from the conference. Samples:
The "perfume smeller" was requested by a manufacturer who wanted a girl to dispense perfume samples and describe the customers' reactions. For every vial of perfume given away, the girl received twenty-five cents. She was then asked to describe her preference among the varieties she had distributed.
When cotton, contaminated with natural radioactivity, is tested over a series of days, its activity diminishes according to a definite rule that depends on the "decay rate" of the elements involved. The curve of decay, plotted on a chart, normally consists of portions of two straight lines. On nine occasions...
Most of the "unnatural" samples came after U.S. atomic tests in Nevada, but some of them were collected in Montana when no U.S. fission products could have been in the air. The radioactive material presumably came from the Russian explosion announced by President Truman on October 3, 1951. Another sample...
From Rome to Remington. For a foundation, Chillman decided to concentrate on the classics instead of modern or regional art. "The children here had never seen the important examples of the art heritage in any way but reproduction," he says. "Egypt was a book to them; so was Europe." The...