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...When a boil of Gulf Stream finally points to pogy, and the men in the small boats close their quarter-mile ring of net to draw it in, the menhaden suddenly "thunder" (i.e., make a quivering mass surge) and split the net. Captain Crother follows another school too close to shore, promptly loses a second net when its base is sucked fast into the sandy ocean floor. Still another catch has to be let go when baby sharks begin to shred a third net. In final irony, the Moona Waa Togue is almost within hail of home port with...
...picture, as it developed last week, seemed remarkably cloudy. Three separate probes of the FHA were in progress: Capehart's, Byrd's, and another run by the Administration itself. Eased off the front pages by the McCarthy-Army proceedings, all three were left on the fire at a slow boil. It was evident that the Administration's housing bills would be held up, and might undergo serious revisions. Outside of this, not even the boldest of political prophets would be willing to conjecture on what the ultimate effects of the FHA scandals will...
...wispiness of the indictment, it is difficult to boil with indignation. Any Administration with memories of Fuchs, the Rosenbergs, and such, is likely to be cautious in the extreme. Yet, considered from another point of view, its action is the opposite of caution. Against the background of the Fort Monmouth fiasco, the demoralization of the Voice of America, Stassen's defeat in the Greek Ship squabble, the humiliation of the Pentagon, and the disruption of the State Department, the Oppenheimer episode seems part and parcel of the process by which the government, through one branch or another, has stultified...
...Dublin, a bronze cast of a reclining figure by British Sculptor Henry Moore, purchased for the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, made Irish tempers boil. The lumpy-limbed figure was proudly hauled into a meeting of Dublin's Friends of the National Collections of Ireland. Up jumped fragile, 60-year-old Beatrix, Dowager Baroness Dunalley. "I am horrified by this monstrosity!" cried Lady Beatrix. "It makes me not angry but frenzied. That figure has got leprosy. It has got cancer ... If we go down to hell we will see something like that." The Friends decided to delay the presentation...
...high temperature (which favors efficiency) without high pressure, another reactor will have heat-resistant graphite as its moderator and will be cooled by a molten sodium-potassium alloy. Still another will have a novel gimmick. Its cooling water will be allowed to boil, and the steam generated will be used directly to drive a 5,000-kw. turbine. This cuts out the conventional heat exchanger used in the reactor of the submarine Nautilus to generate nonradioactive steam. Dr. Smyth did not say so, but the turbine will probably become so radioactive that it cannot be approached by humans...