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...Soviets never had any fundamental secret to overcome, Schwinger remarked. "It was just a matter of getting enough technology together. What the Russians had to do is evident--they had to get enough fissionable material together and then lick the detonating problem.' This is apparently what they have done, he said...
Cost-conscious ("I put a price tag on everything I do") and confident, he thinks that he can lick Curtiss-Wright's problems. Says he: "In a couple of years, my record will speak for itself...
...even more startling things. The surface of the sun, even far from the "mountains," is not smooth. It is covered with tiny "spicules" that jet up suddenly. Tiny only "in the solar sense," they are several hundred miles in diameter and 5,000 to 10,000 miles high. They lick up from the surface and fade away in an average of about five minutes...
Right Down Main Street. The folks around Parnell remember young Ben as a rough one. Quick as a cat and strong.as a bull, he could lick any young buck in the county, and frequently did, and he would bet on anything...
Voiceman Herrick is confident that superior U.S. and British technology can lick the Soviet jammers. In this sort of warfare the offensive generally has the advantage. It is almost impossible to drive all unauthorized words out of a nation's air. During World War II, the Nazis used massive jamming equipment and also made it a capital crime to listen to Allied broadcasts. But the news still got through...