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Tribuna's report, datelined Buenos Aires, said that Dr. Ronald Richter, the former Austrian scientist, was arrested after technical experts of the Argentine army had discovered that Richter "was not sufficiently advanced as a physicist" to achieve the atomic release Perón had claimed. Three experts informed Perón that Richter, in their opinion, was nothing more than a "colossal bluff...
...column of comment on the story, Editor Lacerda wrote: "On the day on which Perón announced the discovery of this scientist, we stated we thought he was lying, but we never thought Perón himself was being fooled. General Perón, it turns out, was the otario [sucker] . . . Thus closes in international ridicule a chapter which Charlie Chaplin could well have used in his satire, 'The Great Dictator...
Beginning next fall, every junior at San Francisco will study the nature of Communism for a full year. For background, U.S.F.'s academic vice president, Father Raymond T. Feely, S.J., will analyze the philosophy of Communism and the nature of totalitarianism. Then, Political Scientist Robert MacKenzie will lecture on Soviet expansion. Finally, 30-year-old Tony Bouscaren, who has been keeping tabs on left-wing organizations ever since his undergraduate days at Yale, will take his students inside Communism, U.S.A...
Died. Dr. Takashi Nagai, 43, X-ray scientist, objective chronicler of A-bomb effects on himself and his townsmen; of chronic leukemia; in the one-room cabin he called "Love-Thy-Neighbor-as-Thyself-House" in Nagasaki, Japan. For years a hopeless invalid, given the last rites (he was a Roman Catholic) in 1948, he nonetheless kept on writing impassioned pleas for a peaceful, A-bombless world, moving descriptions of his devastated city's "society of spiritual bankrupts" (We of Nagasaki). Soon to be published: his final bequest to the world, Atomic Battleground Psychology...
Finally, the unearthly vegetable touches off a conflict between the captain's horse sense and the chief scientist's highfalutin notions. The scientist (Robert Cornthwaite), who is suggestively costumed like a Russian, wants to appease The Thing to gain knowledge; the captain wants to destroy it-if he could only figure out how. For a while, it looks hopefully as if The Thing will destroy the actors. In the end, however, while small-fry moviegoers are brought to a sizzle, man masters the vegetable...