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Timing & Tricks. By now, Robbie has carefully catalogued pitchers' weaknesses. He has, for example, discovered that when Boston's Si Johnson crooks his neck in a certain way, Si has stopped worrying about the base-runner and is about to pitch. This discovery gives Jackie a split-second head start on his way to second...
...They split into smaller groups to visit mines, mills and workers' homes. That shook them. After a visit to a cellar where a whole family lived in one room, one congressional investigator remarked: "I wonder how long I would live like this before I became a Communist." A colleague cracked: "It wouldn't take two years of it to make Cox a Republican." But no one laughed. Georgia's ultra-reactionary Eugene ("Goober") Cox was so moved that when he got back to the train he gave his sweater, necktie, other odds & ends of clothing...
General Clay's special train pulled out of Essen and trundled the Congressmen to Frankfort. There they all shook hands, split into teams and hurried off in all directions. This week the rest of the show-me committee was spread all over western Europe-in Paris, Brussels, Vienna, Rome-asking questions, taking notes...
Heisenberg points out that all the world's physicists knew, before the war, that atoms of uranium 235 (the rare isotope of uranium) would split in two with a large release of energy. They also knew the theory of a "chain reaction": that splitting atoms give off neutrons which make other uranium atoms split too. These facts were the "secret" of the atomic bomb-a secret open to everybody...
...basis of this one-man boom is a paraffin-like substance which its chief producers, DuPont and Bakelite, call, respectively, polythene and polyethylene. Tupper's all-important contribution is a process which overcomes the material's tendency to split, makes it tough enough to withstand almost anything except knife cuts' and near-boiling water...