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Bombs & Stumps. Kistiakowsky's biggest job came in 1944, when he went to Los Alamos as a key man on the Manhattan Project. His assignment was to provide the explosive power for triggering the first atomic bomb, assemble the bomb so that it would go off. On the eve of the first test at Alamogordo, Kistiakowsky, another scientist and a military police officer with a submachine gun guarded the bomb throughout the night...
...Louis were smoothly integrated four years ago. Children were ordered to attend schools in their own neighborhoods, and no transfers were allowed. But that effective formula (also followed in Washington, D.C.) re-emphasized a sad, subtle U.S. segregation of another kind. In 14 major cities, from Boston to Los Angeles, it blights 25% to 35% of 3,200,000 children in public schools. Worried schoolmen call it "the problem of the culturally handicapped." They mean the mental ghettos in which thousands of dispirited Negro children live because no one-teachers or parents-can stir them to care...
...court, the troupe still uses the resplendent gold-and-silk costumes privately owned by the Emperor; a Pinkerton man is guarding them during the troupe's 16 Manhattan performances. (The troupe will also go on a cross-country tour, with stops at Boston, Washington, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles...
...week before, developed clutch trouble. Mike Magill went to the hospital with neck injuries after hitting the Speedway wall on the 47th lap. Ray Crawford hit a wall on the 121st lap, suffered broken ribs. But through the pile-ups nothing bothered 38-year-old Veteran Rodger Ward of Los Angeles, a onetime fighter pilot who had never finished higher than eighth in eight previous "500" races. He nursed the dirty-white Leader Card Special in front to stay on the 86th lap, sped home the winner by a tight 23 sec. over Veteran Jim Rathmann. Ward's average...
Author Lipton, a minor poet and novelist (Rainbow at Midnight, In Secret Battle), is well situated to serve as middleman between the beatniks and the squares. He owns a necktie, and he lives in a seaside slum of Los Angeles called Venice West, which is as cool and beat as a mentholated eggnog. Lipton himself is not really beat, but because of his advanced age (58) and full refrigerator, he is allowed to serve as Big Dada to the tribe...