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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Incredible Mr. Limpet (1964). Don Knotts is a wishy-washy bookkeeper who becomes a fish. This sounds dumb, but it isn't half bad. The animated scenes of Knotts as the fish are better than Disney, and the plot (the Navy tries to use him to bomb enemy subs but he has cold fins about it) is pretty daring for a kid's film. Ch. 56, 12 noon. Color, 2 hours...
...would seem that a book like this, made up of intimate interviews with a key figure, would provide a unique opportunity to explore crucial historical events: for example, in Truman's case, the decision to drop the bomb. Although Miller raises this subject, he does it ever so gently, in spite of the fact that he himself has written a book deploring the Hiroshima and Nagasaki massacres. He tells of proposing that Truman make a goodwill trip to Hiroshima seventeen years after the war. Truman's response was, "I'll go to Japan, if that's what you want...
Died. Edward Uhler Condon, 72, the distinguished nuclear physicist who became a target of postwar Red-baiters; of heart disease; in Boulder, Colo. Condon's experiments in 1943 on the separation of U-235 were instrumental in the development of the atomic bomb. In 1945 he was named head of the National Bureau of Standards. Three years later, despite loyalty clearances by two Government agencies, he was branded "one of the weakest links in our atomic security" by the House Un-American Activities Committee. The specific charge-a flimsy one-was that Condon had associated socially with Eastern European...
That would be hot enough to start fusion, the same energy-releasing reaction that fires the sun or an H-bomb. Some of the material would be consumed by the black hole, but most of it would be explosively blown away as extremely hot electrified gases. By letting these gases pass through a magnetic field created by a generator aboard the spacecraft, a powerful electric current could be induced in wires rigged outside the craft...
...times in the first two pages she uses the word "mystery." With a kind of metaphysical awe she notes that there are 228 muscles in the head of a caterpillar, 6 million leaves on a big elm, 14 billion root hairs on a rye plant. Then she drops her bomb on Eden: Why? "My God what a world. There is no accounting for one second of it," she cries. "The question from agnosticism is, Who turned on the lights? The question from faith is, Whatever...