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Some weeks ago Dr. Otto Hahn of Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm Institute donned his work clothes, walked into his laboratory to perform a physical experiment. With a stream of neutrons (obtainable by subjecting a pinch of beryllium to the emanations of the radioactive gas radon) he bombarded a bit of uranium. While the routine little experiment proceeded all was peace and quiet in the laboratory. There was no crash of thunder, no flash of cataclysmic lightning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science 1939: Dr. Otto Hahn, Berlin, accidentally creates atomic energy | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...when Dr. Hahn examined his end-products and sat down with pencil and paper to figure out what had happened, he concluded that he had created the most violent atomic explosion ever effected by human agency. Moreover, he had not intended to do it. It was a great accident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science 1939: Dr. Otto Hahn, Berlin, accidentally creates atomic energy | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...stoned by so-called chaotics, militant rabblerousers who have attached themselves to the peace movement. In Wiesbaden last month, a member of the Green Party poured a jar of his blood over U.S. Lieut. General Paul Williams. Later, a bomb exploded in a U.S. officers' club near Hahn, and on the same day, antimissile activists tried to disrupt the annual air show at the U.S. Air Force Base at Ramstein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: We Want to Liberate Ourselves | 9/26/1983 | See Source »

Another company squeezed by IBM is Vector Graphic (fiscal 1983 sales: $33.6 million). Admits Dick Hahn, a senior vice president: "When IBM came into the market it took a lot of business that we had." Sales fell $2.5 million in 1982, and a $2.4 million profit turned into a $3 million loss. One-quarter of the company's 400-person work force has been laid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Easy-Come, Easy-Go World | 9/5/1983 | See Source »

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Author: By Mike Hnobler, | Title: Batmen Creep Close to Dartmouth, League Lead | 5/2/1983 | See Source »

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