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...quietly relaxed; Ohio's William McCulloch, the G.O.P. floor manager for the bill, dawdled with his yellow pencil; the South's floor manager, Louisiana's Edwin Willis, scribbled on a note pad; New York's Emanuel Celler, the Democrats' floor manager, even left the chamber during the count. At length, Speaker Sam Rayburn spoke the finish: "On this vote, the yeas are 311, the nays...
...Nikita Khrushchev was his old bouncy self. He stopped off to tell the Chamber of Commerce how eager he was to have dealings with France's biggest capitalists, if only he had more to buy with. "We have a little gold," he added, "but we keep it. I don't know why. Lenin said, 'A day will come when they will pave floors of public toilets with gold.' " Then Khrushchev abruptly asked whether anyone knew of any descendants of a Frenchman named Lebrun who had owned the Ukrainian mine where he had slaved as a youth...
...Shaped Fireball. The success cautiously announced by Dr. Tuck was achieved by Scylla, a cylindrical chamber about 30 inches long in which deuterium is squeezed by a sudden magnetic shock. The squeeze produces an egg-shaped fireball about 0.8 in. long containing five times 1016 (50 million billion) deuterium nuclei at a temperature of 13,000,000°C. It lasts about 0.9 millionth of a second, and spits out about io million neutrons...
...medical school, the technical jargon was almost as forbidding as to a layman. Crux of the matter: drugs influence mental function mainly through their effects on two parts of the brain: 1) the primitive midbrain's reticular (little network) formation, and 2) the connections between the thalamus (inner chamber) and the outer cortex (bark), the most sophisticated and evolutional-ly the newest part of the brain. Dr. Himwich reported...
Still, as Hoess recalls, there were "scenes which affected all who witnessed them," when mothers gave unearthly screams and vainly tried to throw infants to safety before the gas-chamber doors slammed shut. At times he breaks into spasms of self-pity: "I had to watch hour after hour, by day and by night, the removal and burning of the bodies, the extraction of the teeth, the cutting of the hair, the whole grisly, interminable business. I had to stand for hours on end in the ghastly stench ... I had to look through the peephole of the gas chambers...