Word: crystallize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last week, before a New York state legislative committee, Miss Janet Moore, a Canadian nurse, pleaded the Fifth Amendment in refusing to name friends who had recommended that she spend her summers at Crystal Lake Lodge at Chestertown, N.Y. and Wingdale Lodge at Wingdale, N.Y., both under investigation as being Communist-run. Miss Moore did not pretend that she feared becoming involved in a criminal prosecution; rather, she insisted that her "own beliefs" prohibited her from naming her friends. Did she have a right to use the Fifth Amendment in such a way? And having used it, should...
...pool reactor," a working research reactor set up on the lawn outside the palace. It is housed in a building that looks like a large, windowless Swiss chalet. Inside, from a black ceiling, beams of light slant down. On a red linoleum platform stands the reactor, a pool of crystal-clear water, faintly blue and 21 ft. deep, with control rods reaching into it. At the bottom, enveloped in blue luminescence, are the reacting uranium plates. Visitors can look down with perfect safety, and sense the atom's power...
Double Bromide. In the La Banza, over-aggressively played on NBC's Kraft Theater (Wed. 9 p.m., E.D.T.), had the opposite fault of Man on Spikes. Its point was crystal clear but simpleminded. An ambitious small-towner exploits his brother's boxing talents, and by overmatching him, causes him to be so gravely injured that he can never fight again. The double bromide: ambition is a drug on the market, but no cure in itself for those who are sick for success. The Gambler ("Security is for suckers"), on CBS's U.S. Steel Hour...
Large-scale uses are unlikely until the price comes down. The batteries are ex pensive because they are made of highly purified silicon ($280 per lb.), which must be "grown" by a tricky process into a single crystal about the size of a fat banana. The wafers are cross sections one-fiftieth of an inch thick, and they must go through a subtle chemical treatment be fore they will work as batteries...
...years the Metropole featured a mid-Victorian atmosphere, with small crystal chandeliers dangling from its stucco ceiling, and a Gay Nineties revue on its narrow platform. When febrile '54 lost interest, the café took a flyer on jazz, tentatively signed Dixieland Trumpeter Jimmy McPartland & Co. Since then, the Metropole has parlayed its music and saloonlike atmosphere into one of Manhattan's most successful jazz slots. The clientele is as mixed as a parade crowd: servicemen, college kids, tourists, jazz fans, a few unattached girls, and some times such celebrities as Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowska and Crooner Eddie Fisher...