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Party bigwigs from Paris, appearing as witnesses, quickly shifted from the case at hand to standard denunciations of the Marshall Plan and the atom bomb (U.S. brand). Prim in a navy pin-striped suit, Raymonde smiled, blew kisses to her husband of seven months, once fell asleep when the trial session dragged on past midnight. She admitted her crime "proudly," said she did it because "I hate...
Panic swept South Amboy. "Atom bomb," someone yelled and began running. Said a townsman later: "I saw that big pile of smoke just like in the newsreels and I said: 'That bastard Stalin's started it!' " Men & women, carrying children, ran south, away from the blast. Cars loaded with frightened people sped out of town. Mayor Leonard rushed to the city hall, piled into a sound truck and rode about town bellowing reassurance. Finally, the southward rush slowed and stopped...
...five, he visited an observatory and startled the astronomers by naming the major constellations, and describing the planets and their characteristics. At six, he wrote a learned little essay on the atom (though in those days, he spelled it "andn"). At seven, he wrote another paper on "Cellula" structures ("the amoebas is the smallest cell...
...universe a man is only as large proportionally as the tiniest atom in his own body," Donald Hatch Andrews, professor of chemistry at Johns Hopkins University, said Monday night at the Radcliffe chapter of Phi Beta Kappa's spring installation of new members...
Charles Osborne contributed two stories. The first, called "The Egg Thing," is dry and dull but the second, a fairy tale about an atom bomb that "Felt things," is well handled. Osborne's humor is subtle and he has a flair for satire...