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...prophets of hydrogen Doomsday (TIME, March 6) got no support from David E. Lilienthal, former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and a man well qualified to judge. Speaking last week at New York's Town Hall about the four atomic scientists who predicted the death of the human race in a radiation-poisoned world, Lilienthal said...
Zacharias punctuated his article with two sentences framed in Doomsday black: "A single milliliter† of the highly infectious psittacosis [parrot fever] virus could kill 20 million men. This virus can be produced cheaply in bulk by a small laboratory anywhere in the world...
...White's doomsday trumpet is a steel wheel 3½ inches in diameter, with 80 square teeth around its edge. It spins against a thick steel disc drilled with 80 small holes arranged in a circle to match the 80 teeth. Compressed air rushes through these holes. When the wheel revolves, its teeth chop the air into pulses; each pulse becomes a sound wave...
...latter work, entitled "Apparebit Repentina Dies", is based on a Latin poem of uncertain date and authorship ("before A.D. 700", said the program). This is a description in unrhymed octameter couplets of a Doomsday that recalls by its luridness the same scene as painted in the liturgical "Dies Irae." Mr. Hindemith's musical setting, though interspersed with brass interludes in his familiar fugal style, is perhaps a shade expeditious for so picturesque a subject. It trips, or rather bumps along in a jolly fashion that depicts little and scares no one; but it is distinguished music, if a bit ineffective...
...atom men last week took hard, scientific looks at the future. One envisioned happier times ahead; the other, from. where he sat, could see doomsday...