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Like every other commodity in Europe, money is bought & sold on the black market. Through a series of "black" transactions, a man with flexible scruples can pile up a handsome profit. Required for the trick are 1) the false bottoms of inflation and 2) a well-organized international set of stooges. Last week, TIME's London bureau found a traveler who had just returned from a cheap weekend tour of the continent...
...Antonio bandaged his eyes with torn bits of his mother's undershirt and started caressing a picture of his cousin, a war prisoner long unheard from. Nothing happened. Antonio burst out crying, then he remembered something said in the market about metal discs. He ran to a junk pile and picked up an old rivet. With this pressed firmly on his neck he stroked the picture once more. Suddenly, as if on a movie screen, the lost cousin appeared, dressed in a faded uniform and strolling down a grassy slope. "Where are you?" shouted Antonio. The cousin stopped, turned...
Radiant Death. One of them, radioactive poisons, was mentioned briefly and guardedly in the Smyth Report. Wrote Professor Smyth: ". . . The fission products produced in one day's run of a 100,000 kw. chain-reacting pile might be sufficient to make a large area uninhabitable." The three plutonium piles at Richland, Wash. are enormously more powerful. If Professor Smyth's estimate was right, each pile has been producing, every day for more than a year, enough radioactive poisons to depopulate many "large areas...
...during the war, Technical Sergeant Levine did clerical work in one of the loneliest spots in the world, an Army base on Ascension Island in mid-Atlantic. On the side he painted a Crucifixion for the Catholic chapel. Says he: "The boys needed something to look at on that pile of slag...
Said a detective, eyeing a "gold" pile worth 30 millions: "Zut! Next to him, Uncle Philibert was a piker...