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...Gentler Triggers. Although Bhabha was the first topflight scientist to predict the coming of H-power, the prospect has intrigued his brethren everywhere (TIME, July 25). Present atomic reactors all use the fission process: splitting nuclei of the heavier atoms, e.g., uranium or plutonium, to produce a controllable reaction. But fusion, used solely in the H-bomb, involves binding the nuclei of far more plentiful, lighter atoms (deuterium, lithium, etc.) under tremendous heat to produce an explosion...
...Gogh's recorded reactions to Milliet were gentler. He found Milliet a restless model, complained in one letter that "if he would only pose better, he would please me very much and we would have a much better portrait than the one I am doing now. The subject is good, with his flat, pale face and his red cap against an emerald-green background...
...would be out of the question until the three-year-old oil dispute between Britain and Iran is settled. But that is due any day now. British and Iranian negotiators have worked out a complicated formula by which the dispossessed Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. would be compensated (though some gentler phrase might be used) for the huge oil installations it left behind when Iran nationalized its oil industry in 1951. Other provisions...
...after eight years in Congress, Tommy ran for mayor of Baltimore. Again he bucked the Curran machine. When Tommy won hands down, friends expected him to move his wife Annunciata (Nancy) and their six children from the rugged Third Ward to a gentler neighborhood. But the D'Alesandros stayed put. Tommy said: "It's not where you live, it's how you live...
...Talent for Forgery. Like many a romantic swashbuckler of fiction, Ches began his life in gentler circumstances-as a brilliant, somewhat slack-jawed mother's boy named John Donald Merrett. His doting mother, whose less doting husband had skipped out of the family circle, sent him to a fine public school, and went herself to Scotland to tend his needs when he entered Edinburgh University. Each night in the privacy of their quarters, Donald practiced the talent that led to his first serious trouble-forging his mother's name. He soon became expert enough to drain her meager...