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...decentralized by occupation authorities to break its monopoly of German credit, is concentrating its power again. After several years of under-the-counter deals, three of West Germany's biggest banks have come out in the open to organize a common profit-and-loss pool, thus in effect, fuse their $1,622,000,000 in combined assets into one big bank. Their goal: to resurrect the Deutsche Bank...
Sensitively written, directed and acted, The Shrike is a depressing experience but will probably rank on many counts as one of the year's outstanding movies. Like a long-burning fuse, it mounts a harrowing suspense throughout. But with the woeful situation still sizzling grimly at the end, some may feel cheated of a relieving explosion...
...Walter George had given a great deal of thought to a possible top-level meeting between the heads of the U.S., Britain, Russia and France. The father of a Navy pilot who died in World War II, Senator George was deeply worried that Red China might capriciously light the fuse of World War III. Without any foreknowledge of what might result, he decided that a Big Four conference might-just might -head off a conflict...
...Miami, Conductor Leopold Stokowski blew a fuse when he heard himself described over the air as being 74 years of age and the son of an Irish mother. Cried Stokowski: "No, no, no, no. That's not true. I was born in 1887 . . . That's a damned lie. My mother was not Irish. This is terrible-where did you get that stuff?" Flurried Commentator John Prosser shouted to a station WKAT engineer, "Cut the broadcast!" and the interview was replaced by 30 minutes of recorded music. Later, Prosser explained that his information came from the International Encyclopedia...
About five years ago came the "fusion" reaction. In this, an isotope of hydrogen (either deuterium, H2, or tritium, H3) was forced by extreme high temperature to "fuse" into helium with an enormous release of energy. The scientists got the required high temperature by exploding a conventional fission bomb as a detonator. With this development of fusion-which has never been officially described-the number of reactive nuclear ingredients rose to at least...