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Apparently some things have not changed in 450 years. In "Whose Flu?" you report that the French call the current epidemic la grippe Italienne, while Italians retort by calling it influenza Francese [TIME...
...Fergana Valley of Central Asia, 200 miles east of Tashkent -where a mine was opened in 1908. By the end of 1913, it had produced 1,044 tons of ore containing vanadium, copper and about .82% of uranium. At 26 pounds of U-235 per atom bomb (a current guess), this early production could have yielded theoretically enough "fissionable material" for four bombs. The Tyuya Muyun mine was still producing in 1936, when it (and some radioactive waters near Ukhta) yielded enough radium for Soviet needs...
...brassy street called Broadway-the mink-coated, white-tied and marquee-lighted side, and the darker lanes leading backstage to rehearsals where the work is done in drudgery, wild hope and exaggerated despair. Following the career of a young actress (Margaret Garland) who lands a minor role in the current hit Anne of the Thousand Days, this documentary shows Stars Rex Harrison and Joyce Redman going through rehearsals. It also takes a quick look at Director Jed Harris in the process of preparing Red Gloves, starring Charles Boyer and John Dall, and riffles through some quick shots of famous playwrights...
Professor Henry S. Dyer '28, Director of the Office of Tcats, has a wondrous machine. Exame go into a little slot, the machine grumbles, sputters, coughs, and hiccups out the tests completely corrected. During the current examination period Dyer's IBM gadget is grading Economics 1, Psychology 1, Social Relations 1a, Biology 1, and sections of nearly all language finals...
...less stupid than the conservative element of the Republican Party. I fall to see, therefore, what possible benefit is to be derived by undergraduates from attending such sessions as you outline--sessions where they would be subjected to attacks on liberal tendencies in Harvard teaching and to explanations of current social, economic, educational, and political problems in the stupidly and dangerously prejudiced terms typical of the conservative element wherever it exists...