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Over a three-day period last week. Los Angeles' health officer, Dr. George Uhl. wondered and worried as his Geiger counters showed a steady rise in the atmosphere's radioactivity level. At midweek a brisk high-altitude wind, blowing from Nevada, brought radioactivity from a test shot above normal safety levels, sent Health Officer Uhl round to see Los Angeles' Mayor Norris Poulson. Poulson phoned the AEC in Washington, finally got through to AECommissioner Willard Libby, was assured that 1) the fallout level was not dangerous at all; 2) the Nevada test series was almost complete...
...fallout from massive Russian nuclear tests was still clicking the Geiger counters last March when the Russian propaganda machines began grinding out a high-priority party line. The message: the peace-loving Soviets had voluntarily suspended nuclear tests, called on the U.S. to do the same. Under heavy attack from such fervent ban-the-bomb groups as SANE (National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy), U.S. officials doggedly went ahead with the U.S.'s own long-scheduled test series in mid-Pacific, but the President finally agreed to a year's test suspension beginning Oct. 31 provided...
Last week the Geiger counters clicked furiously again as Western spotters counted four separate Russian nuclear explosions "north of the Arctic Circle." After the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission announced the tests, Moscow radio said the Russians had been "forced to resume." The U.S. ban-the-bomb groups were strangely silent. Knowing that it takes 18 months for the U.S. to prepare for a full-scale test, U.S. atomic experts were certain that the Russians began planning for the new test series even before they finished the last. "More and more," wrote the Christian Science Monitor's U.N. Correspondent William...
...remaining short stories, Lore Groszmann's "Mrs. Geiger's Night Out," works from a weak beginning into a strong portrait of a massively silent old woman. The other, Millie Starr's "Crazy Sunday," would be fine but for the fact that Salinger has done it all before and better...
...clue: in 1953 knowledgeable Lieut. Governor Frank C. Moore was persuaded to step out of a bright future in Governor Thomas E. Dewey's administration, step into the Rockefeller Government Affairs Foundation as president, a position in which he would be within hailing distance for political counsel. Political geiger counters began to click in earnest last year, when Rockefeller volunteered to help build a stadium for the soon-to-leave-Flatbush Brooklyn Dodgers. He accepted more and more invitations to women's club luncheons and rubber chicken dinners. He was appointed chairman of a state commission to study...