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...site are the two low, heavy-timbered buildings, banked to the roof with earth, which housed the bomb-exploding generator and observation instruments (known in atom-scientist code as "Beta" and "Ten Thousand"). Nearby stand two white-painted Sherman tanks used to examine the area immediately after the explosion-airtight and lead-lined to protect the crews from radiation-hung with mysterious instruments which the Army's cautious scientists still refuse to explain...
Collective Power. The court ruled that an A.P. member must no longer be allowed to keep out a competitor (although the A.P. membership as a whole will still be able to reject applicants). It also ordered the A.P. to loosen its airtight news-trading agreement with the Canadian Press. In doing so, the court majority paid its disrespects to the A.P.'s familiar plea that freedom of the press was at issue: "Freedom to publish is guaranteed by the Constitution, but freedom to combine to keep others from publishing is not. ... [A publisher has no right to] a peculiar...
...husband, murders Rose Hobart, his wife, for love of Alexis Smith, her younger sister, only to find that Miss Smith has no use for him. In the course of describing just how his wife looked when he last saw her, he makes a single mistake that punctures his otherwise airtight alibi. Since mystery-hardened cinemaddicts can hardly fail to miss his slip, it becomes much too clear, from there on, how and by whom he is being brought to justice. The method: to make him believe that his wife is still alive, by leaving her perfume fresh in their bedroom...
...General Eisenhower. After his first, bemedaled showing in news pictures, later photographs revealed him in a dingy uniform, without medals (see cut}. In London, the molasses-slow United Nations War Crimes Commission classed Hermann G&246ring as a No. 1 war criminal, said that he faced "an airtight case" on at least eight counts...
...Technical Service Command: an "anti-exposure" suit (made of nylon coated with a material that makes it water-and airtight) to keep a shipwrecked man warm-even in freezing water...