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...Alamos play a kind of hopscotch over chalked squares identified as "radioactive" or "contaminated." At the Hanford Plutonium Works in Richland, Wash., he seeks out the red-staked " 'burial grounds' in which radioactive refuse is interred," adding quite correctly that such cemeteries will be an ever-growing hazard to mankind through succeeding generations. He stops at Ellenton, S.C. to shed a tear over the disappearance of the tumbledown little town, which is being removed to make way for the Atomic Energy Commission's Savannah River Project...
Ready at a twist or two of the wrist to perform more than 100 different jobs, the new Shopsmith contains the first important improvements since the original model hit the market with a bang in 1947. The exposed drive belt, a hazard to juvenile fingers, has been enclosed, and a new speed control enables the woodworker to adjust the speed of saws, sanders, etc. simply by turning a dial to "saw" or "disc sand" in the same way a housewife adjusts an electric mixer. Price...
...this, his 28th play, Rice is like a horse that knows the road so well he can stay on it even when the driver falls asleep. But he weaves and ambles, with no real sense of where he is going, and he offers such comic dialogue as "Would you hazard a guess as to the duration of the cogitational period?" As the heroine, Joan Tetzel can only be violent and affected as a way of seeming upset. As the successful suitor, Tom Helmore has far better methods of seeming nonchalant...
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Time was when the venerable (since 1911) 2,000-mile Monte Carlo Rally was an adventurous endurance race rich in such hazards as rutted roads, unreliable engines and collapsing tires. Even in recent years, sleet, ice and blinding fog have brought hazard and death to the competitors. But last week, blessed by the balmiest weather in Rally history, a record percentage of finishers-331 of 363 starters-whizzed through the flag-draped finish gate on Monte Carlo's Quai Albert Premier. The only American entrant, Frederick Cramer, 48, a history professor from Mount Holyoke College, summed up this year...