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...strategic bombing of such targets as workers' housing to cripple Germany. Asked to study Cherwell's statistics, Tizard found the damage estimate five times too high. But he got nowhere. Churchill's intimate won a backstairs Cabinet fight that had "the faint but just perceptible smell of a witch hunt." Labeled a defeatist, Tizard was forced to sit out the rest of the war as president of Oxford's Magdalen College...
...most gifted safecrackers currently at large: during World War II he whiled away dull hours at Los Alamos by opening his colleagues' safes and emptying them of their top-secret contents. Accustomed as they were to such Feynman showstoppers as proving that his sense of smell is as good as a dog's (by sniffing out articles handled by fellow dinner-party guests), even Feynman's scientist friends were startled last December when the lanky physicist impulsively set up his own small-scale version of the Nobel Prize...
...albums (a dozen old and new songs in each) are packaged in bakery boxes, the sort crumb cake comes in. Visible through a large round cellophane inset are F. & F.'s Vinylite heads, whose unblemished cheeks are supposed to feel like skin but actually feel like soapstone and smell like Mr. Clean. Each idol is mounted on a cardboard plaque covered with artificial suede and can be hung by a brass ring on a bedroom wall...
...fleet of six Cambridge fire trucks hustled over to Mather Hall last night at 9 p.m. with sirens screaming. 'While a ladder was raised to the roof, and while students were shouting "I smell it but can't see it," firemen spent five minutes in locating and dousing the blase. The undramatically small leaf are, found in a window well next to the entrance of Mather Hall C, was probably caused by a misplaced cigarette...
Thus, Snow concluded, although Tizard and Blackett were right, the conflict in the secret politics of high conferences resulted in their defeat. "The minority view was not only defeated, but squashed, The atmosphere . . . had the faint, but just perceptible smell of a witch hunt. Tizard was actually called a defeatist...