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...Ivan, Scram. Impatient with what he called "the old, fearful, pussyfooting non-combatants garbed in the robes of diplomatic wisdom," Reuter jeered at the Russians and at the people who would bend before them. "What are the Soviets after?" he asked sarcastically. "What is the significance of the third sentence in the second paragraph of some editorial in a propaganda sheet steered from Moscow? This wholly unimaginative, enfeebled attitude of people who stare like rabbits at a snake, and wait to be devoured-this just fills the Soviets with contempt...
...name of Godiva" says Los Alamos, deadpan, "has a logical basis." She is a "bare reactor" (no neutron reflectors), and she can assemble three or more pieces of fissionable material into a critical mass. Like Topsy, she will scram if a reaction gets out of hand...
...load against the base of another subcritical mass. When the two are joined, they are still barely subcritical. Then the machine pushes rods of natural uranium into holes in the neutron reflector. The reaction starts and gathers momentum until the distant operators, or the automatic safety devices, make Topsy "scram", i.e., pull the masses apart...
...Malan, Scram! At week's end, looking bitter and tired, old Pastor Malan hearkened to the fanatics, announced in Parliament that he would end the court's "interference" with acts of the legislature. From all over the Union came angry protests; Torch supporters paraded through the streets of Cape Town and Johannesburg, demanding: "Malan, scram!" Ominous too were the stirrings in the great Bantu slums, where Nationalist police confiscated truckloads of "murderous weapons...
...nights. When he learned that the NBC Symphony was to follow in an "evening of great music" such musically mongrelized but star-studded programs as the Telephone Hour, Toscanini, said Variety, "had all he could take." Some members of his orchestra were convinced that the maestro would "decide to scram for keeps." Since nobody thought that NBC would continue its orchestra without him, that might mean the end of the NBC Symphony...