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...Harry Truman, throwing caution to the winds, decided to veto the bill, even though it meant an almost complete break with his party leaders in Congress...
Eisenhower's report was written long before his critics-notably Lieut. Colonel Ralph (Top Secret) Ingersoll-began to attack him as a cautious, "political" general. But by inference, he dismisses attacks on his caution, declaring simply that to continue General Patton's armored blitzkrieg across the Rhine before Christmas was impossible. Not only had he outrun his supplies, but there were too many Germans in too good positions on the west bank...
...Solomon Rabinowitch died in The Bronx. He left a massive literature: 300 short stories, five novels, four plays, innumerable articles. Last week, 30 years after his death, the English-reading world got its first wide sampling of the stories. Translators Butwin caution that the flavor of all 27 stories in The Old Country is weakened by translation. Even so, they taste pretty strong...
Bringing such "reactors" together is touchy business. The scientists work with infinite caution, watching instruments which measure the number of free neutrons within the experimental mass. Under some conditions, the chain reaction starts slowly. But sometimes it leaps into violence in a millionth of a second. There is no explosion, no vibration, no sound. No human sense can detect the outburst of deadly radiation. The only warning, which comes too late, is a faint bluish glow. Some experts think it is caused by ionization of the air; others believe it to be an optical illusion telegraphed to the brain...
...Caution. Once a messenger boy in Chicago's La Salle Street, Kirkeby now owns nine hotels worth $30,000,000. Last year they had a gross income of $20,000,000, a net after taxes of $1,500,000. He first got interested in hotels in 1934. His explanation: "I was dealing in Government bonds then and the going was getting very rough. But hotels-they were practically giving them away and I didn't see how they could go much lower...