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...spring of 1945, with the Nazis on the verge of defeat, a small group of scientists crowded into a cave in southern Germany for one last attempt at starting a chain reaction in their uranium pile. It was far too late to produce an atomic bomb that could help the fatherland. But the scientists-unaware that the U.S. had accomplished the feat more than two years before-were determined that Germany should produce the world's first nuclear chain reaction before the war ended. Their experiment, like the entire German A-bomb program, ended in failure...
...danger of destruction by decay. Until the last decade, film was made from a nitrate base, both flammable and subject to erosion. The film archivist works against time: the older the film, the more likely the chances of physical degeneration -- and the chance of its vanishing forever in a pile of dust...
Columbia broke to an early lead and then continued to pile up points. Roger Walazsek totalled 20 and another sopho more star, Heyward Dotson...
...lines. It's like Jackson Pollock's painting." And Swallow, the most venturesome composer of the group, wants to pursue such directions as those he charted in General Mojo Cuts Up, in which the players improvise over a five-minute mélange of taped music, then pile their instruments into another impressionistic fancy while the tape is repeating. "Jazz," he says, "has to mutate in order to survive...
Besides Wirtz's judgement, Johnson made his decisions because of widespread criticism of "pyramiding." Graduate students in the past have been able to pile one deferment on top of another until they were exempt from service because of age. This inequity has been a focal point for the non-ideological criticism of the draft. Johnson's primary goal is known to have been halting that criticism and secondarily alleviating the inequities. Although he seems to have achieved the first, he has only reversed the second, placing the military obligation disproportionately on the formerly-privileged group...