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...early 1951 a crude thermonuclear experiment had been set up at Eniwetok in the Pacific-Operation Greenhouse. Says Teller: "What remains most clear in my mind is the contrast between the spectacular explosion, which in itself meant nothing, and the small piece of paper handed to me by my good friend Louis Rosen, which showed that the experiment was a success...
...informal death. When the Queen's customary departure hour of midnight came, she stayed on, danced with all cutters-in, wound up having ham and eggs at 3 a.m. London's press next day upbraided Aldrich for his news blackout and the ballroom manners of the crude Americans (observed by an Evening Standard spy). But apparently the Queen had seldom had such a ball. Said one guest: "I've never known the royal family to be so happy...
...drugs are as important, in their way, as the germ-killing sulfas discovered in the 1930s. Two drugs ushered in the new era: chlorpromazine* (TIME, June 14), a synthetic compound, and reserpine †(TIME, June 21), a pure alkaloid from the juices of the snakeroot (Rauwolfia serpentina), crude extracts of which had been used for centuries by medicine men in India. Both drugs became available in the U.S. in 1953. But most ivory-tower mental hospitals, attached to medical schools with good research facilities, passed up the chance to be first to try the drugs. Far more receptive were...
...Benz tremble around 160 kilometers (100 m.p.h.). He flashed by goats, banana plantations, royal palms and startled girls in magenta dresses; he hurried dustily on through villages where school children lined the streets for shrill vivas, through towns that tried to attract official attention to their rustic needs with crude banners impossible to read at high speed. After nine hours he coasted into San Cristobal, 18 miles from the Colombian border and 650 miles from Caracas. "Sports, swimming, high speeds," he mused, "all are fine ways to set aside the cares of office...
When Khrushchev smiles, the light flashes on two gold bicuspids. He is short (5 ft. 3 in.), like all of Stalin's men, but bulky, and he has a blunt, peasant face. Among Russians he has a crude way of addressing all those below him in rank with the unceremonious and familiar "thou." Said a Russian who knew him during his days in the Moscow Soviet: "He exudes self-confidence and aplomb. He knows very well how to annoy people with explanations of their party tasks." Was he talking with Malenkov now about his failed party tasks...