Word: orly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Take Me Along could do with more dancing, but a gay Aubrey Beardsley ballet, a sort of absinthe-coated peppermint stick, wickedly whirls all Actor Morse's callow, adolescent sex fantasies-Salome and George Sand, Lysistrata and Camille -into one. As the show proceeds, certain scenes are repeated, certain...
For the last six years, the Army Quartermaster Corps has been boasting about steaks, eggs, and other perishable foods preserved by the glamorous atomic-age process of putting them in plastic envelopes and shooting gamma or beta rays through them. The foods looked fine, tasted pretty good, and they could...
Concern started soon after Richard S. Morse, the Army's civilian Director of Research and Development, took his job last June. None of the VIPs had suffered any ill effects; neither did human volunteers who ate the foods for short periods. But experimental animals put on a long-term...
The irradiated foods are not at all radioactive, and no poisonous materials have been found in them. Suspicion is that the radiation may completely destroy natural vitamins (biotin, riboflavin. etc.), since the test animals show classic symptoms of severe vitamin deficiency. But the tests were haphazard and incomplete, so no...
What about the galaxies, which do not expand but merely move farther apart? Gold and Hoyle believe that great clouds of the hot cosmological gas radiate some of their heat away over the course of several billion years. As heat drops, each gas cloud cools and shrinks. At last, it...