Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is shy Albert Einstein, looking in his old age more & more like a long-suffering and highly sagacious old yak dictating a letter to President Roosevelt which sparked the Manhattan Project. There are the quick-eyed Lise Meitner, the steely Compton, the vivid Fermi, the deceptively rustic Bush, their faces subtly haggard in remembrance of the moments they are reenacting; and there are the faces of Oppenheimer and Rabi, a few minutes before all hell breaks loose in the New Mexican desert, with the shaky exchange-Oppenheimer: "This time, Rob the stakes are really high." Rabi...
...strongest and strangest drama arises as Conant and Bush sprawl once more in the sand to reproduce for cameras the suspense and release of that moment at Alamogordo when the Atomic Age cut loose its first appalling kick in history's womb. According to New York Timesman William L. Laurence, some witnesses at Alamogordo were moved by the actual event to perform a kind of primordial fire dance. But history-or rather the human ability to stare history straight in the eyes-is not yet tough enough to endure that sight. Instead of the dance, the movie shows Conant...
...northern Zululand's subtropical bush, an army of hunters stood poised for the greatest game hunt in South African history. This week, at a signal from Scientist Gilles De Kock, they would raise their guns and assagais (spears), and plunge into the jungle. Quarry: the tsetse...
...record of its vast labor, in 2,500,000 volumes (almost enough to fill the New York Public Library), will be turned over to the Government by Director Vannevar Bush...
This week the Army & Navy announced that they had set up a joint scientific research committee to coordinate their research. Its chairman: Vannevar Bush. Other members are Generals Jacob Devers and Carl Spaatz, Assistant Navy Secretary W. John Kenny, Admiral DeWitt Ramsey...