Word: lightly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worth in disease research. World War II gave the isotopes another use: the atom bomb, which the cyclotron helped make possible by producing purified uranium 235. This achievement by Lawrence, one of the six U.S. scientists appointed to weigh the bomb's possibility, was a green light for the Manhattan Project...
Died. Alfred Thomas Goldie Gardner, 68, youth-defying British auto racer, first light-car driver (in a souped-up MG) to crack 200 m.p.h., holder at his death of four international records; in Eastbourne, England. "To cut wind resistance, I drive on my stomach," said Goldie Gardner. "A poor chap in an American hot rod has to sit upright-frightfully drafty." Flat out, Gardner, at a youthful 61, set 16 records in one day on Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1951, 21 more (in one week) the next year...
...Reluctant Debutante. Rex Harrison and Wife Kay Kendall, a spicy broth of a girl, ducking in and out of the soup in Director Vincente Minnelli's light-hearted peek at Mayfair manners and amorals (TIME...
...churches of Venice." But guilt and remorse close in like sudden fog, a free-floating guilt that seems to swirl around some atavistic memory of the Good Life. Thus an errant wife who has drunk and danced through the night is startled by the birds of dawning: "The pristine light and the loud singing reminded her of some ideal-some simple way of life, in which she dried her hands on an apron and Will came home from the sea-that she had betrayed...
...book is largely based on documents that came to light after World War II, when German archives fell into Allied hands, and on exhaustive studies by a research group under Dr. Stephan T. Possony, Georgetown University professor of international relations. Commissioned by LIFE (which also sponsored part of the studies), Australian Author-Journalist Moorehead (Gallipoli) has done an outstanding job of sifting the raw material and fashioning a coherent, exciting story...