Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...atom-bomb secret" which Russian spies needed to steal. This fact has been asserted again & again by the Atomic Energy Commission and backed up by responsible U.S. physicists. The central "secret"-that an atom bomb can be constructed-has long been known to all the scientific world. Last week the AEC's files yielded documentary proof: Russian scientific papers on the subject, published in 1940, before the U.S. started its atom bomb project...
Until this week the Russian papers had been known to few. If the facts they contain had been properly publicized, a lot of spy chasing and pointless orating might have been avoided. The AEC might also have persuaded millions of Americans not to count on a "secret" which the whole scientific world knew...
After 135 years of wandering, six stained-glass panels were on their way home last week to the town hall of Sempach, Switzerland (pop. 1,200) for which they had been made. The panels, illustrating early Swiss history, were the gift of Manhattan Industrialist H. C. Honegger, who values them at $100,000. Their return reversed the usual flow of European art into U.S. collections, was bound to warm Sempachian hearts...
...last week 14 little paintings by an unknown named E. Box were hung in London's Hanover Gallery. By nightfall they were all sold and critics were asking: What does this amateur have that most professionals lack...
...pseudonym. The painter had used it because her life was "just too confused already." She talked to newsmen last week only after she had exacted solemn promises that her real name would be kept secret...