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As the strike wore on, urchins and a few old men & women prowled through the mounting piles of rubbish, patiently searching for scrap paper, cloth, bits of metal and cigarette butts. Cats & dogs dropped in for tidbits. Not far from the Pantheon, the traditional rendezvous of Roman cats, a spinsterish...
End of a Chat. Here, for a few remarkable hours, the hunger of Berlin and the fears of the world seem as remote as the banished darkness. The divided world unites in the extravagant exchange of buffet-and-cocktail banalities-perhaps the only true international language. Bright Scottish kilts swish...
The Open Road. "Reverend Mike" has set the maximum enrollment at 30-"a busload." Whenever masters and boys feel the itch, the school piles into its bus, with one of the masters at the wheel, and goes singing on its way. Studying the plays of Shaw and the poems of...
Light Shield. Airplanes cannot carry massive concrete shields like those around the piles at Oak Ridge and Hanford. A lighter shield is needed. The most deadly radiations are neutrons and gamma rays.
One night last week the speedy auto-rail train which links Paris with the rubber-manufacturing city of Clermont-Ferrand ground to an unscheduled stop five miles short of its destination. Surprised passengers stumbled over luggage piles into waiting buses and heard a guard explain: "The station at Clermont-Ferrand...