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...Weather Bureau, which traced the radioactive cloud, reported its directional progress only, making no comment on its intensity except to say that it was not strong enough to be at all dangerous. But in bomb-bitten Japan, where radiation watching is something of a national hobby, rooftop Geiger counters started clicking ominously. Scientists caught rain water to measure its activity, and jets brought samples down from the sky. About 30 hours after the explosion the radiation count at Niigata, 180 miles north of Tokyo, rose from zero to 30,000 micromicro-curies per square meter of ground. The level...
...addition to Knapp and Iasu, Dartmouth has excellent players in goalie Larry Geiger, who has permitted just six allies in four games; sophomore center halfback Chip Harvey; and right halfback Bill Smoyer, brother of a Dartmouth All Ivy goalie...
...moment a SAC computer might go crazy and cause a nuclear holocaust. Sold to a Hollywood operator for $500,000, the novel has now been made into a sensational scareshow that for the first hour or so will seem credible to civilians and keep their teeth chattering like Geiger counters. But as a work of art and an effort of polemic, Fail Safe labors under a special difficulty: Dr. Strangelove, Stanley Kubrick's recent and remarkable black comedy of nuclear nightmare, has effectively stolen its atomic thunder...
Against M.I.T., the University of Rhode Island, and Boston College in the Geiger Trophy team races last Sunday, the Crimson finished third. Prince, Guy Garden, Herb Motley, Roger Carney, and Tucker Emmett lost twice to M.I.T. and U.R.I., but won both races against...
...Geiger marks the start of the spring dinghy season and should provide an advance indication of the Crimson's strength in the important regattas to come. The team is entered in ten dinghy meets this spring and hopes to qualify for the collegiate nationals, in which Harvard teams have finished second for the past two years...