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Singer was indicted in November by a Federal Grand Jury for refusing to tell the House Un-American Activities Committee about members of a Cambridge Marxist Study Group" to which he belonged during the war. As a result of the indictment, Singer was immediately relieved of his lecturing duties at Cornell, but he still receives his regular salary...
...spare time in Minneapolis, Morse got his law degree; then he went on to New York to work on his doctorate (in jurisprudence) at Columbia, under Professor Raymond Moley. His thesis, a study of the grand-jury system, is a definitive work on the subject. Moley was enormously attracted to his bright young student. Later Moley changed his mind about Morse-and, of course, vice versa...
...grandfather). Five hundred thousand padded to the Yasukuni Shrine, above which the souls of Japan's war dead are said to hover, and clapped hands respectfully to get the souls' attention. Amid the wooded hills of Ise, southwest of Tokyo, 360,000 worshiped at the Grand Shrines of Shintoism...
Strauss: Wiener Blut (Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Erich Kunz, Emmy Loose, Nicolai Gedda; Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus under Otto Ackermann; Angel, 3 sides of 2 LPs). Not so grand a ball as Die Fledermaus, Johann Strauss's masterpiece, this operetta is slighter but in spots even more delightful. A composite of Strauss music not originally written for the stage, the score is full of surprises: when sung, some of the waltzes and polkas take on a warbling charm they do not have as orchestra pieces alone. The libretto is preposterous, but offers linguists an unusually rich sampling of Viennese slang...
Near one of the sand filters Shepherd got a surprise: his scintillator needle indicated high radioactivity. Shepherd scooped up some filter sand and shipped it off to the Atomic Energy Commission's office in Grand Junction, Colo. AEC reported that the sand contained up to 0.75% uranium, almost four times as rich as minimum commercial ore. The uranium, said AEC, was being deposited in the sand by water. But since sand is a poor concentrator, it was probably catching only about 20% of the uranium in the water...