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...estuary. Admiral Isaac Rojas, commander of the rebel fleet, proclaimed a blockade of the capital. "The entire navy is heading for Buenos Aires," he said, contradicting repeated government assertions that the high-seas fleet was peaceably anchored at a port in southern Argentina. The rebels threatened to bombard the capital unless Perón gave up the office of President. That night, roving wardens enforced a panicky blackout in downtown Buenos Aires, cutting wires and ripping out connections where they found lights on. At daybreak, observers in Uruguay counted 21 rebel warships in the Plate, including two elderly battleships with...
...radioactive. Their job under an Atomic Energy Commission contract is to determine the "burden" of radioactivity that a beagle (or human) body can carry for a lifetime without damage. The dogs are injected with graduated amounts of plutonium, radium, radiothorium or mesothorium. These elements accumulate in the bones and bombard tender cells with damaging alpha particles...
...affair that cost $11,500. It was a fine organ for its day, but before long, Fritz Mayer began to hanker for new tone colors and started a drive to get new stops. Families of old grads began to donate memorial stops-a double open diapason here, a contra bombard there, a tuba sonora, a tromba batalla or a vox angelica...
...news to make even a sensation-jaded physicist draw a sharp breath. Last winter, he reported, he and his assistants tied a pack of photographic plates to a balloon, sent them up to 100,000 ft. over Texas to be exposed to the powerful primary cosmic rays that bombard the top of the atmosphere. Later, studying the plates in the laboratory, Dr. Schein got more and more excited as he followed a peculiar ray track through the pack. The track was a bundle of slim Vs made by pairs of negative and positive electrons and there was no trace...
...Nauseam Hollywood has found that the best way to get the entertainment seeker away from the TV set, short of turning out better films, is to go after him in advertising copy-bombard him with sex, pound him with superlatives and stab him with exclamation points...