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...afternoon the body, seated in a chair on a four-wheel cart, was drawn through the streets by Telugu schoolboys waving lengths of black silk, beating their chests and crying, "Madras city is ours." At the crematorium, the frail body was washed in rose water and burned on a pile of sandalwood while Hindu priests recited the funeral service and Telugu politicians thundered to the mourning mob that they would never give up Madras city...
Flying Visit. The crash ruined the machine, but it made Willy famous. A German newsmagazine posed Willy and his defunct machine on a coal pile and took -a picture at night to give the impression that he was airborne. Several promoters and at least two foreign governments, Willy reported, wanted to see his designs. Trouble was, it also brought Willy into view of the authorities. Last week British occupation authorities descended on cousin Johannes' place and began a solemn investigation of Willy's goings-on. Willy ruefully put what little money he had left into the hiring...
Referring to investigating teams like the Senate Internal Security subcommittee, he declared, "If you pile up enough past misjudgments, it now seems to indicate that a man is disloyal...
...this is so, we may eventually find Claus working out his days on a rock pile, while Christmas stockings will be filled only by feet, and chimneys will have to be swept annually by chimney-sweeps. The essentials of guilt are there: Claus' advocacy of redistribution of wealth is notorious, and his proven stupidity simply stamps him as a willing tool of subversion. The Santa Claus legend may yet come to an end, not in disbelief, but in disgrace. Perhaps for kindly, well-meaning legends in these troubled times, non-existence is the best way out after...
...squash court below the west stands of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago, 42 scientists stared intently at a strange pile of graphite bricks. The time was 9:45 on a morning just ten years ago. Italian-born Nobel Laureate Enrico Fermi gave the signal for the experiment to begin. A cadmium control rod was slowly drawn from position. Geiger counters clicked. Control lights flashed. The pen in an automatic recording device moved over graph paper in a rising curve. At 3:45 Dr. Fermi calmly announced: "The reaction is self-sustaining; the curve is exponential." A chain reaction...