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...Wheels Whir. In Manhattan, Dr. J. A. Hutcheson, associate director of Westinghouse Research Laboratories, pondered the question that fascinates power engineers. "We can get power out of uranium," said Dr. Hutcheson, "but we don't know how to reduce it to usable, practical form...
...only schemes proposed thus far have substituted a chain-reacting pile for the furnace of an ordinary powerhouse. The pile's heat will generate steam to run a turbine. But this, thinks Dr. Hutcheson, may be only a better-than-nothing solution, carrying coal-era thinking into the atomic...
...Hutcheson anticipates no such, simple solution. "What we need," he says, "is some new idea, which we cannot imagine now. Some time in the future an atomic powerhouse may be nothing but a black box with electric terminals...
...Cities Perish. While Dr. Hutcheson speculated on the atomic Dr. Jekyll, other experts worried about the atomic Mr. Hyde. In the current issue of the Pulletin of the Atomic Scientists is a calmly horrifying article by Ansley Coale: "Reducing Vulnerability to Atomic Attack."* Prepared with the advice of a distinguished scientific committee (including farmed Physicists I. I. Rabi and Henry DeWolf Smyth), the article arrives at a dismal conclusion: there isn't really much hope for anyone-once the atom bombs start falling...
...Florida the sun shone brightly on a group of old men. There was 76-year-old Bill Green, a little deafer and shakier than he was last year; Big Bill Hutcheson, of the carpenters; Dan Tobin, of the teamsters; John Lewis, of the coal miners. They, and eleven others, were the executive council of the A.F.L., the bosses of more than 7,000,000 workingmen, assembled at Miami's Alcazar Hotel for their annual winter powwow...