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...Communist leaders were brought to book, Defendant Sobell, 33, nervously scrubbed his fingers along his chin as the Government began its case. Tall and pale, Julius Rosenberg, 33, drummed on the counsel table; his wife, Mrs. Ethel Green-glass Rosenberg, indicted with them as a fellow conspirator, was the calmest. These three, the Government charged, were part of the spy transmission belt for which Physicist Klaus Fuchs (see SCIENCE) was a prime source and Chemist Harry Gold a key courier. The Russian contact for the ring was Anatoli Yakovlev, who was wartime Soviet vice consul in New York. "The evidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Faceless Men | 3/19/1951 | See Source »

Meanwhile, the four Crimson crews at Red Top continued to take two workouts of over four miles each day; the first before 7 a.m. and the second at around 6:30 p.m., times when the Thames is calmest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coaches Elect Gifford To All-American Crew | 6/21/1950 | See Source »

Even on the calmest day, a continual wind sweeps across the flat expanse of Soldiers Field. It dashes through the unprotected tennis courts, transforming drop shots, into smashes and smashes into drop shots. And the H.A.A. does not plant hedges or put canvas screens around the courts because intramural athletics cannot even pay its own way, let alone provide money for improving facilities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Playing Cards | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

...think he'll win, but he'll beat more horses than beat him. He's slow to settle down to running and easy to knock off stride. He'll give you one good run when you ask for it." Ponder was the calmest of the 14 horses that paraded out to the tune of My Old Kentucky Home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: My Old Kentucky Jones | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...pretty good night. Hubble pointed the telescope at a small patch of sky (Area No. 57 in the constellation Coma Berenices) that had been thoroughly studied through the old 1001nch telescope on Mt. Wilson. He started taking pictures. Results were good enough to excite the calmest astronomer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: One Billion Light-Years | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

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