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...victim to "Zoé," the atomic pile at Châtillon. For eight days they bombarded the hair in the pile's neutron flux. Then, when the elements it contained were thoroughly radioactive, they shielded the hair with lead, exposed it, one millimeter at a time, to a Geiger counter. The rate of growth of human hair is about one-half inch a month, so when the scientists came to a place that emitted rays from more arsenic than any healthy citizen ought to have in his system, they were able to pinpoint the time when the victim...
Although no appreciable could ever get outside the walls, there are geiger counting nervously all around, just. Even the small door to the has safety devices which see no one going through gets a squeeze--built-in are seven switches that on touch two door's electric motor...
...bulging secretary (Margaret Sheridan). Except for the Air Force captain (Kenneth Tobey), whom the script had fated for her, the men treat this cute tomato with vegetable-like indifference. They keep their minds on science, though not very scientifically, e.g., when the grounded saucer's radioactivity sets their Geiger counter sputtering, they walk calmly into the radioactive field...
Irresistible Fyodor. The Age of Longing is set in Paris, some time during "the middle 1950s." By that time, war has become an almost immediate certainty. Pocket Geiger-counters and protective radiation umbrellas are in all the shops. France and the rest of the West are more confused and divided than ever, helpless before the poised divisions of the "Commonwealth of Freedomloving People" (Russia). For Fyodor Nikitin, however, cultural attache at the Free Commonwealth embassy, life holds neither personal nor political problems. Communism is his crutch and his faith. When Paris nightclubs, dressing gowns and mistresses begin to turn...
...hundreds of California backyards, sweating husbands and excited children were blistering their hands and straining their backs burrowing into the ground. Overnight, dozens of new construction firms appeared, offering everything from $13.50 foxhole shelters to luxurious $5,500 suites equipped with telephone, escape hatches, bunks, toilets and a Geiger counter. City switchboards were flooded with calls asking for shelter specifications. Newspaper ads exhorted home owners to buy "Life Safes . . . protection for you and your family against aerial attack...