Word: nines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surface, the lives of J. Robert and Frank Oppenheimer resembled a brotherly game of follow-the-leader. Robert became a nuclear physicist; so did Frank, who is nine years younger. Robert helped invent the atomic bomb; Frank went to work on the A-bomb project. Last week the brothers appeared before congressional investigating committees, but beyond that there was no similarity in their performances...
...from seeing any evidence of "incredible mismanagement," as Hicken-looper had charged, Oppenheimer thought Lilienthal and the commission had done a fine job-"far better than I thought it would be." Oppenheimer's nine-man General Advisory Committee agreed with his conclusion, he said. As for the supposed risk involved in sending radioactive isotopes overseas for research, he was sure that there was nothing to worry about. Even if the Russians managed to get some, said Oppenheimer, they wouldn't find them much help in making atomic weapons. Like wide-eyed students enthralled by their favorite professor, committee...
...rest of the Crimson starting nine will find Captain Walt Coulson at first base, Mort Dunn at shortstop, and three year veteran Ernie Mannine at third base...
...salaries this week, the cinemactors who usually adorn it were conspicuous by their absence. National Theaters' Charles P. Skouras, who has led the list for two years, topped it again with $810,000 in salary and bonuses (before taxes). But in the next nine on the list, there was only one Hollywoodian, Movie Director Preston Sturges.* All the rest were corporate bigwigs...
...three Comrade Ogilvy had refused all toys except a drum, a submachine gun, and a model helicopter. At six-a year early, by a special relaxation of the rules-he had joined the Spies; at nine he had been a troop leader. At eleven he had denounced his uncle to the Thought Police after overhearing a conversation which appeared to him to have criminal tendencies ... At 19 he had designed a hand grenade which had been adopted by the Ministry of Peace and which, at its first trial, had killed 31 Eurasian prisoners in one burst...