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...minute rate-indicating a level that was above the highest count recorded at the Palomares, Spain, crash site in 1966. To minimize the threat that the radiation poses to plant and animal life, the recovery operation will continue until as much as possible of the 200 Ibs. of fissionable trigger material in the four shattered H-bombs and the contaminated pieces of the B-52 have been found...
...determine if any of the plutonium-uranium 235 trigger or contaminated wreckage melted into-or even through-the 9-ft.-thick ice in the fire that followed the crash, technicians have taken ice-core samples that will be an alyzed for radioactivity in U.S. and Danish labs. If it is determined that any substantial amount of hot debris penetrated the ice and sank to the bottom of Baffin Bay, 800 ft. below, deep-diving submersibles (TIME, Jan. 19) may be called in to recover it, just as they were in the Palomares crash...
...band played fortissimo. Then the drums beat. Then there were speeches in English, French and the local language, Twi. At last Yaa was handed up to the platform, where a technician stood poised with his jet gun. He placed it against Yaa's arm and pressed the pedal trigger. Yaa opened her mouth in a gap-toothed smile...
...would probably be classified delinquent for "evasion." Others were desperately trying to lose weight, practicing a grotesque pigeontoed gait (deferred on the grounds that anyone who walks with his toes pointing in would not be able to march long distances) or considering the relative merits of lopping off their trigger fingers. It was all pretty far-fetched, but to a significant number of students at Harvard the alternative of fighting in Vietnam was even less palatable...
Kistiakowsky, a member of the Harvard Faculty since 1930, is known for studies in the mechanics of chemical reactions. During World War II he devised a system of conventional explosives to trigger the first atom bomb...