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...Russia wanted was the secret of atomic energy, held jointly by the U.S., Canada and Britain. More particularly she wanted primary scientific data which would enable her own scientists to build a pilot plant for the manufacture of fissionable material-a plant such as Canada owns and operates at Chalk River, Ont. To get such information, Soviet agents had been cultivating susceptible Canadians-some in positions of trust in the Government, some employed in the National Research Council, Canadian custodian of atomic-energy secrets. Little or no money changed hands. The traitorous Canadians had, it was quite clear, collaborated with...
...Standouts were six casual masterpieces by the 15th-Century Florentines, who drew mostly in sepia and silverpoint (indelible). Trained to make each stroke right the first time, men like Michelangelo, Filippino Lippi and Verrochio looked long and hard before translating their models' flesh into thin lines. Their looser chalk studies, like Michelangelo's Libyan Sibyl, showed the same supreme accuracy...
...have seen . . . workers parading along the streets and shouting, 'We want an American Perón!' . . . Charcoal or chalk signs reading 'Hurrah Perón' and 'Up Perón' are a common sight...
...Swedish Scientist Berzelius in 1828 named his newly discovered element thorium-after Thor, god of thunder-the choice was perhaps more portentous than Berzelius guessed. Last week in Ottawa, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King told the House of Commons that Canada's huge atomic-energy project at Chalk River, Ont. is exploring the use of thorium as a source of atomic energy. This was the first public hint of large-scale atomic experiments with elements other than uranium...
Commercial uses are limited and prosaic-Welsbach gaslight mantles, carbon terminals for projectors, luminous watch dials. Since commercial production has never been reported in Canada, two possibilities are suggested: 1) the materials for Chalk River will be imported; or 2) under the wartime security blackout, a workable deposit of thorium has been discovered in Canada...