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...Shock Wave. When an atom bomb explodes above the ground (as it did at Nagasaki and Hiroshima), the air around it is heated tremendously. Its push to expand creates a shock wave that roars outward in all directions with enormous speed. At 1,000 ft. from "zero," the point directly beneath the bomb, the wind whooshes out at 800 m.p.h., faster than the speed of sound. Two miles away, it is still blowing at 70 m.p.h...
...story that led up to this shock goes a long way back, and winds through two aberrant doctrines besides Communism-pacifism and Naziism...
Depressing Suspicion. The shock of the Fuchs case was much graver than the Canadian spy case or the trial in. Britain of Dr. Allan Nunn May. The scientists at Harwell were horrified and demoralized. In Washington a young general threw up his hands. "It's depressing," he said. "It makes you so suspicious you don't know whether to trust your own staff members." From Frankfurt came word of Klaus Fuchs's father. The old pacifist, now 75, had left two weeks ago to become professor of theology at the University of Leipzig in the Russian zone...
...been 62 years since Kreisler, a shock-haired Austrian boy of 13, had first visited the U.S. Even then he had thrilled U.S. .audiences with the mellow beauty of his tone and interpretations. The son of a Viennese physician, he had already won all the gold medals Vienna and Paris could offer at their conservatories. But, as he reminded ambitious youngsters last week, he had had to wait until he was 40 before he could earn "a good living" as a violinist. "I am sorry when I hear of a young artist suddenly becoming rich. Wealth and lack of worry...
...bittersweet wartime romance between Susan, a nice girl from Boise, and an amiable Greenwich Village wolf (Dana Andrews). While she keeps her pregnancy a secret, unwilling to snare Andrews into marriage, he scribbles a voluntary proposal, then dies in an Army training accident. She recovers from the shock in plenty of time to hook unsuspecting Smith...