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Calmly and cautiously, Fermi gave the necessary orders. Inch by inch, a neutron-absorbing control rod was drawn out of the reactor. The instruments watching its behavior began to click louder. Fermi would not be rushed. At 11:35 a.m. he casually remarked, "Let's go to lunch," and the reactor was shut down...
...reply drew a hearty laugh from the press, and Mendès waited for silence, his smile growing broader. ". . . And so I will do this afternoon," he added. The laughter rose again, louder. "And," said Mendès-France finally, "I don't venture to prophesy, but I am quite sure he will say no." That brought down the house...
...first, the record seemed to give off only a series of rumbles and gurgles. But soon the irregular surges and lulls began to sound like the surf, playing on pebbles, crashing on rocks, growing louder and louder until a big one landed with a thunderous roar, and the listener could almost see the flying spume and the screeching seagulls. Then, evoking a passage into a quiet bay, little waves lapped with a feathery sound on a soft beach, and a bell buoy clanked mournfully. On the other side of the record was a kind of aural shipboard narrative, beginning with...
...cheered him in Carnegie Hall. Last week they listened in Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Louis as the Brubeck Quartet swung through the Midwest (as part of a jazz-concert package). Not everybody likes Brubeck's intense, quiet music; a lot of Bourbon drinkers still prefer the wilder, louder jazz that thrives on full bottles. But in a matter of five years, Brubeck fans have grown from a small, West Coast clique to a coast-to-coast crowd-particularly on college campuses. What people hear and cheer in Brubeck is not only a new type of jazz...
...drum stroke. In 1950, a wealthy alumnus gave Mayer a second new console, a $35,000 item that contained 1,622 parts, including 757 stop keys, 218 combinations and 248 miscellaneous gadgets (e.g., a toe-touch stud that brings on a soft stop with one kick, adds a louder one with the second and turns both off with the third...