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...hours, confirmed that this was so.* In Washington, Representative W. Sterling Cole called his Joint Atomic Energy Committee together for a briefing by CIA experts on what they knew of the Russian explosion. President Eisenhower, in New York for a one-day visit, conferred with Chairman Lewis Strauss of the Atomic Energy Commission and White House Psychological Warfare Adviser C. D. Jackson...
...Salzburg Festival, famed mainly for its glittering performances of Mozart and Richard Strauss, the season's big news was the world premiere last week of a modern, gloomy opera, The Trial. The music was by Gottfried von Einem, who, at 35, is regarded as Austria's outstanding postwar composer. The libretto was taken from Franz Kafka's novel...
From his home in Culpeper, Va.. AEC Chairman Lewis Strauss stated: "We have never assumed that it was beyond the capability of the Russians to produce such a weapon and that is the reason why, more than three years ago, it was decided to press forward with this development for ourselves...
...Angeles, Strauss's predecessor at the AEC, Gordon Dean, was less inhibited by official responsibility. "America must realize," said he, "that the Russians have a strong atomic potentiality, strong scientific talent, great engineering know-how, vast deposits of ore, and the police state in which all these things can be effectively combined. Under such conditions it would be both foolish and extremely dangerous for America to assume Malenkov was lying...
...Scott Co. (grass seed) paid him $7,500 for a color movie showing weeds curling up and dying under a chemical weed killer. After a World War II Navy hitch, Ott spent three years making a two-minute movie which showed primroses "dancing" to the rhythm of a Strauss waltz. He did this after discovering that he could make the primroses droop or rise by controlling their moisture and temperature. The movie was such a success that Ott quit his bank job, built big new greenhouses, installed cameras and elaborate timing mechanisms to work them. In four years his gross...