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which was marked to show how many feet and inches of the rod remained within the pile. "Pull it to 13 feet, George," Fermi said calmly, watching the meters set up to measure the neutron emission inside the pile. As Weil withdrew the rod, the meters clicked faster and faster. Fermi did some calculating with the little slide rule he always carried with him. "This is not it," he said. The rate of radiation leveled off as neutron emission from uranium and neutron absorption by cadmium came into equilibrium...
...actor James Dean, hero of the beatniks. Unfortunately for the Royal Ballet, Nureyev is like Dean in another respect: he is as complex and difficult an animal offstage as he is on. After giving a superb performance opposite Fonteyn in an electrifying pas de deux from Le Corsaire, Nureyev withdrew from all his scheduled performances...
...stakes, of course, were far too high for so far-fetched a motive. Many Communists apparently do not believe the story themselves. "The Soviets here are depressed and quite sensitive," reports a U.S. newsman from Bonn. "When they tell you that Khrushchev withdrew because the U.S. guaranteed the continued existence of Castro, they look quickly at your eyes to see if you buy that one. They really prefer not to talk about...
...hunting trip three years ago, he accidentally shot and killed his old friend Harry W. Anderson, a longtime G.M. vice president. The incident left him with a deep grief. Though he remained active on the G.M. board, traveled widely abroad and mixed with a few auto pals he withdrew more into himself...
...decision to accept Federal money under the National Defense Education. Act, Yale stands alone among the colleges and universities which withdrew from the program to protest a provision of the Act requiring all student applicants to disclaim belief in any subversive organization...