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...some young, M.I.T.-trained scientists on a $31,000 shoestring, Tracerlab was the first U.S. company to grow out of atomic energy (TIME, Sept. 12, 1949). It built a thriving business selling radioactive isotopes to hospitals, has big Government orders for devices to measure radioactivity (e.g.t the $49.50 fist-sized Radiac...
...reign. In Teheran, they called themselves the National Association for Fighting the A.I.O.C., rallied in the capital's Majlis Square in defiance of police orders. Young men wearing lapel buttons decorated with Picasso's dove and the word "peace" led a crowd of 7,000 in clenched-fist salutes, in shouts for the abolition of martial law in the oilfields and the freeing of Communist political prisoners...
...watching his fist, which trembled in the air an inch or two from my face. Then he brought it down to pound the press table. "Sixty-four million American boys, casualties, in the cold hills of Korea--and the cost of living, you can't get a good ham sandwich today--the Commies are back...
...Closed Fist. After the war, Yenching returned to Peking, began turning out scholars, teachers, ministers and businessmen as before. But in 30 years, Yen-ching had also been turning out other alumni-students who, in the tolerant air of Yenching, had plunked for Communism. Such Yenching alumni now hold high posts in Mao Tse-tung's foreign ministry and his NKVD. They represent a philosophy that has no room for the Yenching idea...
Meanwhile, Sugar's long left fist had been poking out, flush and regularly, into the solid features of Jake the Bull; Jake began to show signs of wear. In the ninth, Sugar turned loose his right. From then on, the question was not whether Jake could win but whether he could preserve his ten-year record of never having been knocked flat...