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...American Activities ended yesterday in a blaze of accusations and counter-accusations as Shapley charged Representative John E. Rankin (D-Miss.), who sat as a one-ma committee to hear him as a witness, of "Gestapo." tactics and Rankin countered by announcing contempt action against the well-known scientist...
...same alloy, is exactly one meter (39.37 in.) long. For nearly 70 years nations have sent their standards to the Pavilion de Breteuil for measuring and checking, but modern science has lessened the importance of The Meter at Paris. Instead of using a meter bar for a check, a scientist in a well-equipped laboratory can now determine the accurate meter in terms of light waves, which give as accurate a measure of distance as direct comparison...
...indigestible plot, full of false leads and unkept promises, is like a woman's magazine serial consumed at one gulp. It begins as a romance. Miss Hepburn is a scientist's daughter-a moody, headstrong girl who doesn't quite know what she wants out of life. Then Robert Taylor, a fabulously rich airplane-parts tycoon, sweeps her off her feet...
...Lake Success last week a Russian scientist created a minor sensation in a very major matter when it appeared that he was moving his country approximately half an inch toward international control of the atom. The sensation promptly collapsed...
Meanwhile, however, the U.S. delegates had perked up when they heard Alexandrov talking about "balance sheets." Would the balance sheets, they asked, be "audited"-that is, checked by some outside agency? Remembering that he is more of a scientist than a diplomat, Professor Alexandrov pulled in his neck. He was not prepared to answer right away, he said, but would bring the matter up again at some later time...