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...C.I.O. Born in 1933 on a wave of city-room salary slashes, the Guild was nursed through infancy by its fat and rumpled creator, the late famed Scripps-Howard columnist, Heywood Broun. It took plenty of nursing. Fledgling chapters had a distressing tendency to melt under pressure: during a 1935 strike against the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Guild membership on the 84-man news staff dwindled from 39 to 24. At first the newsmen resisted joining a national labor movement sponsored by common laborers, but within four years the Guild affiliated with John L. Lewis' new Committee for Industrial Organization...
...founded" by alphabet-weary scientists at the Office of Naval Research in 1952. AMSOC has about 50 members, but no records, dues, laws or officers; its meetings have been held at Washington cocktail parties with a two-member quorum. Typical agenda item: how to tow Antarctic icebergs north and melt them to irrigate Southern California. But in science the impractical can turn practical overnight with a little cash behind it. In Scientific American this week, Geologist Willard Bascom published the first full report of a onetime AMSOC daydream, which is now backed by the National Science Foundation: to drill...
Biggest problem remains how to contain the reacting material (usually deuterium), since the star-hot temperatures generated by fusion would melt any known substance. Physicists have tried magnetic bottles, in which the particles are forced together by powerful magnetic fields and held there without touching the walls of the apparatus. But present magnetic bottles are unstable. They bulge and flutter, permitting their contents to escape. More current would produce stronger magnetism. But if coils are fed too much current, they get too hot and melt...
...Myth has very little myth about it, and not even much of the man, but it is authoritative, and it contains more than a hundred reproductions of Modigliani's paintings, drawings and sculptures. The author went to those who had known him-both "the indulgent sentimentalists, who melt as they tell of the handsome and elegant young man, so lordly, so cultivated and so exquisitely kind-hearted," and "the intolerant, for whom the artist does not excuse the unbearable buffoon, who could neither stand alcohol nor keep away from it, the weak author of his own downfall, the boring...
...insists that no such pressure dislodged him, says that he asked to be relieved. But he notes that his removal coincided with a new Herald Tribune policy of leniency towards Hollywood, and the installation of a crew of Zinsser successors of such benevolence that their critical hearts tend to melt at the movies...