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...reported that the Magic Spikes he had tested contained no vrilium-whatever it might be-but merely ½,000th of a cent's worth of barium chloride, a cheap rat poison. Dr. Bernard Waldman, head of the nuclear physics laboratory at the University of Notre Dame, aimed a Geiger counter at six "radioactive" Magic Spikes in the courtroom. The judge and jurors heard no telltale...
When young Nelson took the stand, he seemed unimpressed by the fact that his Magic Spikes had got no response out of the Geiger counter. Said he blandly to the jurors: "I believe we have an unrecognized form of radioactivity...
...Nevis cyclotron is not only the most powerful; it even sounds different. Like most big atomic machines, it is guarded by Geiger counters to measure its radioactivity. Counters often ring a bell at intervals. An imaginative young scientist fixed the ones at Nevis to make a woeful sound like a baby chick that has lost its mother...
...both looking a little cold, emerged from the crowd, carrying small but ominous-looking instruments held out before them. One was wearing earphones. They stood off by themselves until the photographers discovered them and them they were told to bend over and point their instruments (one was a geiger counter) at the asphalt...
...done, one of the men with instruments was asked to test the shoes of the man in the camel's-hair coat for radioactivity. The latter obliged by sitting on the edge of his car seat, and crossing his legs out into the street. The small man with the geiger counter knelt down beside him, and the cameras clicked. (Both instrument-hearing men later said they were professors at M.I.T., one in graphics and one in sanitary engineering...