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TIME [May 12] said "Three senior scientists at Columbia's Lament Geological Observatory wrote that most of carbon 14 is soaked up by the ocean, that Pauling's estimate of the increase of carbon 14 in the atmosphere was 50 times too high. Pauling's figure: 10%; the Columbia figure: .2%." TIME is wrong. See AEC Commissioner Libby's statements of March 27, 1958. Libby also says that the "carbon 14 rise might be as high as 3% per year as appears to have been observed...
...Pauling said that the earth's content of carbon 14 had gone up 10%, missing the point that AECommissioner Willard Libby was talking about the percentage increase in the total atmosphere. Hence the observation of the Lament geologists that Chemist Pauling's calculations were based on an "erroneous premise...
Three senior scientists at Columbia's Lament Geological Observatory wrote that most of carbon 14 is soaked up by the ocean, that Pauling's estimate of the increase of carbon 14 in the atmosphere was 50 times too high. Pauling's figure: 10%; the Columbia figure: .2%. And the remaining radiation "would be considerably less than that received from the luminous-dial wristwatch worn for about two hours a year." Added they: "Exaggerated statements by respected scientists only add to the public's confusion...
...Lament. Amid some of their own praise for themselves ("A true disk jockey is a pretty humble man, even though it might not show through"), the spin-and-spielers set up a lament about such bosses as Host Storz, a onetime disk jockey whose four-station chain (Minneapolis-St. Paul, Kansas City, Mo., New Orleans, Miami) makes big profits out of relentless plugging of the "Top 40" pop tunes. They protested that this formula is turning the disk jockey into an automaton, stripping him of the "personality" that is his stock in trade...
Blue Denim is twin-burner drama: Arthur's relations to his girl provide the plot; his relations to his family, the basic problem. For though clearly the young lovers had far better have stayed apart, the play in the final and family sense is a lament for untogetherness. It dramatizes the barriers between generations, the dangers in families that have no communications system. What with the young couple's agonizing jam, the dangers in Blue Denim get vividly spotlighted and the story line holds. But there is not much at the end of the line, and there...