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...proposed, or 2½years, as the West suggested). But afterward, if they failed to agree, would the Russians then unilaterally sign a peace treaty with the Communist East Germans? If so, said the West, Russia would still be holding a time bomb over Berlin, but merely lengthening the fuse. Answered Gromyko: The duration of the temporary agreement was "a matter neither of major importance nor of principle" to Russia, and if the German talks failed, Moscow contemplated renewed Big Four talks, not unilateral action. This modification, made since the last session at Geneva, was one thing the West hoped...
...enduring mysteries of U.S. business is how a product can suddenly catch fire with consumers or, at times, just as suddenly lose favor. Nearly 30 years ago, General Motors' William S. Knudsen, a Danish immigrant bicyclemaker turned automan, was the one who lit the fuse under Chevrolet and sent it out ahead of Ford as the most popular U.S. car. His reward was the presidency of General Motors. Three years ago, Big Bill Knudsen's son, Semon Emil Knudsen, took on a similar job: he was made boss of G.M.'s sputtering Pontiac division, thus became...
...minutes Van Allen lectured to Iowa undergraduates on the theory of transformers, then quipped: "All this is very good in theory, but in practice, you take a piece of iron, wind a wire around it, then plug the wire in. The core gets hot, the wires smoke, and the fuse blows. So you see, there are practical limitations to theory...
Radio for Cannon. For a while, he did basic physical research on terrestrial magnetism, which influences cosmic rays. But World War II had begun, and weapons came first. Van Allen was put to work on the development of proximity fuses, which called for something almost inconceivable in 1940: a radio transmitter-receiver that could stand being fired out of a cannon in the nose of a shell. At the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Silver Spring, Md., just outside Washington, Van Allen was a junior scientist in the proximity fuse business, but it made him an expert...
...fast fortnight, diplomats had pulled the fuse out of the Cyprus time bomb. They were rightfully hailed for their good will and their statesmanship. But it finally took old-fashioned steamroller tactics to turn the trick. The steamroller ran right across both the British and bearded Archbishop Makarios, the temperamental star of the Cyprus drama...