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...never dreaming that Goren would risk his growing reputation against the master. But Charlie grabbed at the opportunity. Goren still treasures Culbertson's letter explaining that a sudden business trip to Europe made it necessary to call off the match. "Ely was using good judgment," says Goren, a faint but unmistakable flicker of triumph on his face...
...toggle switch that put Little Boy on its own battery power. At 0915 on that sunny August morning, Little Boy fell free, tail ticking. Four clocks, four barometric switches, four radar rigs inside Little Boy measured the fall. After 15 long seconds, Little Boy began listening for the faint echoes of its own radar signals to earth. On the igth echo-800 ft. above the rooftops of Hiroshima-a powder charge sent one uranium mass bullet-ing through a hollow shaft into the other mass. In one fifteen-hundredth of a microsecond, fission began. In that dreadful instant a city...
...Dead Faint. The whole production displayed the Rorschach-test symmetry of design which has become one of Wieland's trademarks; e.g., in the bridal scene, when one chorister inclined his head toward the center, another on the opposite side of the stage precisely imitated him. For the first time anyone at Bayreuth can remember, cuts were made in a Wagnerian score; stage action was reduced to such bare essentials that the production was almost as close to oratorio as opera (Wieland prefers to call it a "Christian mystery...
...were vocally uninspired, the chorus was in splendid form-despite severe hardships. Wieland's staging demands that the male chorus remain frozen-and conscious-for 70 minutes in the first act. In last week's premiere, several members retreated giddily to the wings. One, in a dead faint, crashed to the stage with a thud that even towering Leo Slezak's dying topples never rivaled for sheer dramatic impact...
...great trick to shoot radio waves at the moon and get a faint echo. The Signal Corps did it first in 1946, and even radio hams do it now. But dependable communication by lunar reflection is harder. The Signal Corps and its collaborator, Collins Radio Co. of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, use ultrashort waves (810 megacycles, 37 cm.) because they pass without much loss of energy through the ionized layers in the high atmosphere...