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Rockets will be directed to sources of heat, light and magnetism by electronic devices. "Drawn by their own fuses, such new rockets will streak unerringly to the heart of big factories, attracted by the heat of the furnaces." In the new atomic age, "the cities of New York, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Chicago or San Francisco may be subject to annihilation from other continents in a matter of hours...
...town today (pop. 7,500) is still mushrooming-4,000 of its inhabitants work in its mines, and there are hundreds of untested claims. But now trains of the Canadian National streak past its back doors. Val D'Or's rowdiness is gone...
...than like a man with a chronic hangover. In the tick of a time fuse he is being smuggled into Japan by the Korean underground as Sergeant Tomo Takashima, a returning war hero. He gets a job in a prison hospital, where he finds his nuclear scientist. By a streak of dazzling luck he also finds that the hospital's head nurse is his old girl, Abby (Barbara Hale...
...This week brought managerial news from the National League too: a nine-game losing streak catapulted Manager Bob Coleman of the seventh-place Boston Braves out of office, gave Coach Del Bissonette his chance...
...Showman. But when Jeffers became U.P. president in 1937, Big Bill developed a broad streak of Hollywood showmanship, a liking for lavish dinners -and the publicity and good will they brought the U.P. When he was crowned King Ak-Sar-Ben (Nebraska spelled backwards), an honor given each year to a leading citizen of Omaha, he decked himself out in silk knee breeches, a 35-lb. train, and a crown perched on the side of his head. His own battery of cameramen were on hand to take his picture. So attired, Jeffers presided over, and paid for, a dinner...