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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Greatest Step? In the clearest terms he had yet used, Bernard Baruch told A.E.C. why the U.S. would not yield its atomic know-how unless the control plan included specific guarantees against veto protection for violators. Baruch said that the A.E.C. recommendations would "die aborning" unless "all of the great powers" on the Council accepted them. He added: "It has been said that if a great nation decided to violate a treaty, no agreements, however solemn, will prevent such violation; that if a great nation does not have the right to release itself from its obligation by veto the result...
Weighing a pound of waltzing mice [TiME, Dec. 9] is not so difficult as you seem to think. First, you play your mice a recording of Die Fledermaus, and when they begin waltzing, you turn down the volume and start reading to them out of Edmund Wilson's Memoirs of Hecate County. This puts the mice to sleep. So you gently place them upon a scale, couple by couple, until it shows a full pound. Then you turn up the volume, and the mice wake up and again go into their dance. Result: a pound of waltzing mice...
...Soviet Russia, as in the U.S., cancer stands near the head of the list of killers.* Some 70,000 Soviet citizens die each year of gastric cancer alone (in the U.S.: 80,000). By Mayo Clinic standards, the Russians concede that Russian cancer treatment is backward: Russian doctors are less skillful in diagnosis, have three times as many deaths after operation (23%) and less than half as many five-year "cures" (no recurrence) of gastric cancer (12-14%). But the U.S.S.R. is pushing cancer research in twelve cancer institutes and in many hospitals, has made cancer-fighting...
Over the head of every sponsored radio show hangs a heavy threat: its Hooperating.* If the rating is too low, the sponsor usually cancels the show. Results: 1) new shows, which take time to win an audience, often die aborning; 2) U.S. radio is encouraged to stick to the trite and truistic; 3) the Hooper system has more influence than friends among radio show folk...
...Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Debussy's Ibéria, Hindemith's Mathis der Maler, Wagner's Prelude to Die Meistersinger. Conductor: Fritz Reiner...