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...good to be reminded that human dignity and greatness still exist and are still newsworthy. It was wood to have the curtain withdrawn for a little on our newest troubled probings into the unknown, the terrifying vistas and apocalyptic visions of the Atom...
...York, where a summertime war on bookies brought on a shake-up in the police department, Mayor William O'Dwyer made realistic reply when he was asked if he thought a shake-up could really kill bookmaking: "I see very hopeful signs of that in the atom bomb...
Fantasy in the Open. In his introduction, Forster remarks: "Fantasy now tends to retreat, or to dig herself in, or to become apocalyptic out of deference to the atom. She can be caught in the open in this book, by those who care to catch her." Forster's boast is pretty well borne out by these twelve stories...
Sister Sadie Neale is not worried about the atom bomb. Her mind is on more important things-the great days of the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, whom the "world's people" call Shakers...
Upshot: California's atom smashers have thus far produced some 100 new isotopes* of atoms to add to the 450 previously known. Among them: two new forms of radium, and an iron isotope (atomic weight: 52) lighter than any iron ever before found. The physicists think that some of their new isotopes may be useful in medicine and research. But most of the isotopes, like the bombarded atom itself, are very unstable...