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While Fred Learned restrained a Yankee grin and 1,000 guests hunched forward expectantly, Dr. Evans "vacuumed" him with a Geiger counter similar to the ones which will be used at the Bikini atom bomb test. When placed near his throat, the sensitive device set up a clatter which, amplified for the audience, was clearly audible in the banquet hall...
...Zero plus 30 minutes, if Admiral Blandy gives the order, two Mariner flying boats, equipped with Geiger counters to measure radioactivity, will roar across the lagoon, 40 feet above the water. If they report and if their report is favorable, a pair of helicopters will flutter down to take samples of the atom-stirred water. Then six small gunboats, also with Geiger counters, will approach the dread lagoon, sampling the water and reporting by radio. Next, a swarm of 20 launches, manned by raincoated scientists, will scoot like water bugs among the stricken ships. Finally, if all pioneers report that...
Last week-more than six months after the first atomic bomb exploded-the New Mexican soil which melted to greenish glass was still aboil with radioactivity. Fragments weighing only a fraction of an ounce caused a continuous roar when held near a Geiger-Muller counter, a gadget which clicks once when an ionizing particle passes through it. Ionizing particles zoomed out of the fragments so fast that the clicks they made as they passed through the counter could not be distinguished individually...
...Nimitz-who said bluntly last month that sea power won the war against Japan-will appear before the U.S. Congress. With him will come Fleet Admirals King and Leahy, Admirals Spruance, Halsey, Turner and Kinkaid, Marine General Alexander A. Vandegrift and Lieut. Generals Holland M. Smith and Roy S. Geiger-a total of 41 stars. And late in October the Navy will stage a full-dress fleet review in New York Harbor, with Harry Truman in the reviewing stand...
...freshly dug grave, enlisted men lifted the plain grey coffin from the ambulance and laid it against a bank of flowers on green camouflage wire. High-ranking officers, led by Marine Lieut. General Roy S. Geiger, stood at attention while the brief service was read. The melancholy notes of taps floated over nearby Hagushi Beach, where General Buckner's men had swarmed ashore on Easter morning. Then his body was lowered into the ground, to rest in honor with the other thousands who had died to win Okinawa...