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Knowing where its money comes from, the library has not neglected its original mission: in the first three months of this year, every Senator and all but 13 Representatives consulted its legislative reference service, on subjects ranging from American Indians to atom bombs. The service digs up material for speeches, drafts legislation, sends experts for last-minute, pre-debate cram sessions in congressional boudoirs, and even handles letters from constituents for the legislators. Last year's prize congressional request: to write a poem to celebrate the birth of a taxpayer's triplets...
Other bouquets went to the Rev. Dr. William Howard Melish of Brooklyn, chairman of the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, to members of N.C.A.S.F. and half a dozen allied groups. Among them: retired Harvard Professor Ralph Barton Perry, ex-Ambassador to Russia Joe Davies, Atom Scientist Albert Einstein, onetime California Attorney General Bob Kenny (now national vice-chairman of the Progressive Citizens of America...
...gave the official text for the day: the U.S. Government does not speak for the American people. Even while the parade is taking place, cried Ilya, "the imperialists with their criminally aggressive plans [are] dreaming of plunging humanity into a sanguinary whirlpool of a new war. . . . Americans carry an atom bomb in one pocket and an Easter egg in the other. Against us are those Americans who are against the American people, those Englishmen who are against the English people, those Frenchmen who are against the French people . . . but in every country we have one friend, the people...
Under ordinary conditions, the straining atoms contain themselves. But a sufficient disturbance, such as heat or shock in the presence of certain impurities, shatters the barrier. Every oxygen atom grabs two hydrogen atoms. Every pair of nitrogen atoms, deserted, grabs a single oxygen. In consummating these unions, the atoms generate enormous heat-and the salt flashes into gases: superheated steam (H2O) and nitrous oxide...
When the war ended, J. Robert Oppenheimer was worn out. He said that he wished he could go some place and run a lunchroom. For 2½ years he had bossed the 4,500 scientists and technicians of the Los Alamos atom-bomb labs. After that, he thought, short-order cooking would seem like a restful vacation...