Word: calming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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ATOMIC AGE "I Expect to Sleep" From Rome, where he was on a lecture tour, one of the world's top nuclear physicists launched a prediction into the suspenseful calm with which the U.S. responded to the news of Russia's atomic explosion. Professor Enrico Fermi made the obvious but often forgotten point that Russia's Alamogordo does not, by any means, give her automatic parity with the U.S. Quantity, quality and means of delivery are crucially important. If the U.S. keeps ahead in these respects. Fermi could see no war for 20 years...
Even once restless Yoshio Kodaira, who last year was convicted of raping 40 women and murdering eight, seemed to have caught the general spirit. "I am fortunate," he said as he marched to the gallows last week, "to be able to die on such a calm and peaceful...
Washington was as calm and unhurried as if neither had happened. The White House had announced its intention of letting labor and management sweat it out; few Congressmen even raised their voices on the subject of the Russian bomb...
Beneath the official calm, there were some barely discernible stirrings. Federal Mediator Cyrus Ching called in his assistants for new strategy meetings to see if anything further could be done about the steel strikes. In the State Department, Counselor George Kennan set to work imagining himself in the Kremlin, trying to guess how the new bomb would influence Stalin's thinking and plans. Connecticut's Senator Brien McMahon called AEC officials to closed sessions of his Joint Atomic Energy Committee and talked vaguely of "more bucks" for the nation's atomic program...
That was last May. Last week Laszlo Rajk (pronounced Royk) spoke again in calm and measured accents. What he said might have been a complete fabrication-but it made an interesting tale. For five hours, before the Hungarian People's Court which was trying him for subversion and espionage, he told a closely detailed story of 18 years of double life as a police informer, traitor, spy and conspirator planted in Hungary's Communist Party. He said that he had worked in succession for Dictator Horthy's police, Hitler's Gestapo, and U.S. Intelligence. This year...