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Died. Alvin Cushman Graves, 55, U.S. nuclear physicist and director of the Test Division at Los Alamos, a pioneer in atomic research, who nearly lost his life in a laboratory accident in 1946, when he absorbed 200 roentgens of radiation (he suffered loss of hair, a cataract and temporary sterility), in 1948 became director of the U.S. atomic testing program in the Pacific, later headed a long series of experimental atomic projects including Operation Ivy, the 1952 top-secret thermonuclear explosion at Eniwetok; of a heart attack; in Del Norte, Colo...
...Colorado, where flash floods can transform even docile streams into treacherous torrents, students in particular have taken to inner-tubing with a fervor that has alarmed the local authorities. A month ago, a 16-year-old boy was tumbled out of his tube by a particularly boisterous cataract, and sometime later was found dead about ten miles downstream. Said a sheriff's deputy: "The body was horribly mutilated-as if it had been run through a meat grinder...
...made the Niagara the rube's Rubicon. "Indian chiefs"-chiefly from Ireland-plied a brisk trade in white pebbles, which they hawked as "congealed Niagara spray." The cries of "hackmen, photographers and vendors of gimcracks," wrote a horrified Henry James, "at times drown out the thunder of the cataract...
...Cataract Surgery...
...unidentified photo illustrating 'cryosurgery for cataract" [April 30] was taken at our hospital, and shows Dr. Charles Kelman and his Cryostylet. TIME should let its readers know of Dr. Kelman's pioneering work...