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DIED. Henri Moureu, 79, French scientist who in World War II helped to frustrate Nazi efforts to make an atom bomb and later saved Paris from rocketing; in Pau, France. Assigned in 1940 to guard France's secret reserve of deuterium oxide (heavy water), Moureu hid it in a prison cell, then smuggled it to England. In 1944, when the Germans unveiled V-2 rockets, Moureu calculated their size and working principles. He also helped pin point launching sites targeted on Paris, which were destroyed by U.S. bombers...
...ruling passion was exactness. Nothing infuriated him more than the idea that visions might be cloudy or woolly. "I know too well that a great majority of Englishmen are fond of The Indefinite which they Measure by New ton's Doctrine of the Fluxions of an Atom, A Thing that does not Exist ... a Line or Lineament is not formed by Chance; a Line is a Line in its Minutest Subdivisions . . . God keep me from the Divinity of Yes & No too, The Yea Nay Creeping Jesus, from supposing Up & Down to be the same Thing as all Experimentalists must...
Financed by drug profits from Southeast Asia, Kalki/Kelly launches a publicity blitz that includes a spectacular death act in Madison Square Garden. The smashing of an atom is projected as a blinding light show. A Kalki/Kelly double and the horse he rode in on are blown to shreds, an event that tens of millions get to examine in endless TV replays. It is, notes an L.A. viewer, "the biggest thing that's hit the Hollywood Hills since what's-his-name walked on the moon...
With its aim of freeing the country "rom 75% of its imported energy requirements by 1985, the French government's nuclear power program is mighty ambitious-much too much so, many Frenchmen complain. Socialist Party Chief François Mitterrand, who clearly plans to make the atom an issue in next March's elections, charges that the policy of headlong nuclear expansion was reckless, "launched like a railroad engine at 400 kilometers an hour." In August, some 30,000 protesters tried to slow the train down by staging a noisy demonstration at Super Phenix, the big French plutonium...
...former AEC chairman believes the atom is the answer. Ray argues that strict safety standards are being incorporated into the state's six nuclear reactors now planned or under construction ?including two at Hanford, site of the nation's first center to produce plutonium. Says she: "We are going to have atomic power as fossil fuels dwindle, so we may as well get used...