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...effect of neutron rays on cancer of human beings. The cyclotron whirls ions of heavy hydrogen (deuterons) between the poles of a huge electromagnet, then hurls them into a drumlike vacuum chamber. When they are charged with nearly eight million volts of energy, the ions are shot against a target of light metal, usually beryllium. The bullets knock out streams of neutrons, tiny particles about the same weight as protons but carrying no electric charge...
...Shiniest target in Fleet Street or anywhere else in London is the spectacular "Black Glass House" of Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express. Editorially, however, the Express was far from worried, shouting nearly every day across the top of its front page: THE DAILY EXPRESS DECLARES THAT BRITAIN WILL NOT BE INVOLVED IN A EUROPEAN WAR THIS YEAR, OR NEXT YEAR EITHER. Readers were not told that dark paint had been daubed over the gleaming black glass walls inside the courtyard of the Express building, that its principal editors had been fitted with asbestos coveralls, that it had spent...
Remarking that he had maligned no individual, he apologized for his "outspokenness" in the campaign and said, "but I could not do otherwise. I, as a person, do not matter in this fight. Someone has to be the target for ridicule, for insinuation, for libel...
...dawn John Deering was taken to the prison courtyard, strapped in a chair, a cap over his head, a target over his heart. At Sheriff S. Grant Young's orders, five deputies raised their rifles and John Deering got what he asked...
...cutting project, suspended for 15 days for drinking "in sufficient amounts 1) to draw the . . . attention of local police, 2) to cause him to remove trees not designated." He was fired in July 1937, after letting a falling tree damage a city truck. But Mr. Hunter's real target was rich, Roosevelt-hating Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick, whom he brashly labeled "vicious" and "irrational." Other item: One Tribune article told of "Johnny," a young Italian "who has never known any work but WPA" and, according to Blackburn, didn't want any. "Johnny," cracked Mr. Hunter, was a former...