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After that-with the air of a man who has paid his debts to the Republic-73-year-old James Wadsworth went on home to raise cattle, read history and enjoy the sharp autumn...
...Horrendous Hypothesis. Suppose that on an overcast, autumn morning, a Russian bomber carrying an atomic bomb the equivalent of 50,000 tons of high explosives swept through the stratosphere above New York and dropped its missile. Suppose that the bomb was timed to explode half a mile in the air over Union Square...
...AURORAS OF AUTUMN-Wallace Stevens-Knopf...
...Radford had a variety of sea and shore duty, doing what he could all the while to improve the technique of carrier flying. In the autumn of 1941 he was called back from a base command at Trinidad to take charge of the Navy's air training program, a job which got him a rear admiral's two stars. Radford took over the training program a week before Pearl Harbor. His problem was to combine mass production with high quality...
Colchicine (from the autumn crocus, Colchicum autumnale) has long been prescribed in the treatment of gout. It attracted the attention of cancer researchers because it is poisonous to living cells, impairs their power to divide. Most cancer workers were disappointed with colchicine and soon dropped it. But Dr. Hans Lettré of the University of Heidelberg persisted. He extracted N-methyl-colchicamid, a substance which proved to be ten times as powerful as colchicine itself in preventing the riotous multiplication of cells (a characteristic of cancer growth...