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...dropped. Along the highways, in whatever cars they had, people were blowing out tires and bumping into each other again; the city traffic tie-ups were something awful. Other moral equivalents to war were the fall's football games-which drew record crowds-and a shooting season so trigger-happy that Colorado's game department recommended manslaughter laws for hunters...
This week Vargas backers rioted in the streets. Tough Joao Alberto Lins de Barros, chief of the powerful federal police force, resigned, and Getulio's sinister, trigger-happy brother, Benjamin, replaced him. Canny old War Minister General Pedro Aurelio Goes Monteiro also stepped out. The commander of the Rio de Janeiro military district ordered all enlisted Army, Navy and Air Force personnel to report to their barracks. The city tensed; U.S. officials ordered all U.S. sailors off the streets...
...tied, 1 lost. They whizzed through five exhibition games, including one with the Champion Green Bay Packers, began 1945 league competition with a 21-6 win over the improved Chicago Cardinals. Then, this week, they had their wings clipped-by the geared-up Detroit Lions and trigger-armed Charles Fenenbock. The 28-to-24 upset was the Eagles' second loss in 21 games. But, win or lose, their exploitation of the T formation remains pro football's speediest, prettiest and often deadliest...
...Trigger & Key. Nitrogen's atomic nucleus was the first to succumb to human attack. Bombarding with radioactive particles, Rutherford succeeded in changing a few nitrogen atoms into oxygen...
...electric charge and therefore slips straight through the powerful electric shields outside and inside of heavy atoms. Soon Italy's brilliant Enrico Fermi (who has lived in the U.S. since 1939), was attacking all sorts of heavy atoms, including uranium, with neutrons. The neutron became the trigger of the atomic bomb...