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...time in the last six months. Yet he still talked about $150 million, with no strings attached, as his price for reopening negotiations. U.S. Ambassador Loy Henderson and British Charge d'Affaires George Middleton did not think Britain ought to pay that much, but they did bombard Washington and London with urgent pleas for some further concessions to Mossadegh. By week's end London was still standing pat on its previous offer (to buy Iranian oil now in storage tanks, price to be fixed later, plus a $10 million bonus thrown in by the U.S.). The U.S., whose...
...Warren frees the delegation in Chicago. Last week Ike's California strategists sat for eight hours in a room at San Francisco's Palace Hotel, drinking coffee, eating buttered snails and planning a four-week splurge that may even make California's eyes pop. They will bombard the delegates with mail and telegrams, have helicopters drop out of the sky to pick up signatures on Ike petitions, and otherwise seek to show that the voters want Ike. There is talk that some of the pros from the Eisenhower headquarters want to move into California to work...
...these seizures. Because the Navy had ruled that Crawshaw died from his own misconduct, his widow got no Government insurance. Neither she nor her daughter would receive a pension. Ruth Crawshaw, who went back to nursing, was determined to clear her husband's name. She began to bombard the Navy, the Veterans' Bureau, Congressmen and the White House with letters. Some powerful allies, including the American Legion, came to her aid. In 1926 the Navy reopened the case, but nothing came of it. Mrs. Crawshaw appealed to Presidents Coolidge, Hoover and Roosevelt. Bills to correct the record...
...camera will not be used merely for scientific sport. Photographing meteors has a direct bearing on practical military technology. The meteors that bombard the outer fringes of the atmosphere are excellent tools for studying that inaccessible region. Their trails tell much about the composition, temperature and density of the outermost air. Such information is vitally important for the designers of high-flying guided missiles...
This turned out to be a break for physicists in general because the new cyclotron filled a gap in their tool-chest. Cyclotrons are used to bombard target material with particles traveling at different rates of speed. To get a whole range of speeds, physicists need several cyclotrons of different power. Before the new Harvard cyclotron appeared, there was only one very powerful mode--the 400,000,000 volt job owned by the University of California--and quite a few smaller ones of not much more than 30,000 volts. The Harvard cyclotron helped to provide the much wanted middle...