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...atomic bomb, once a massive city-buster suitable only for use in strategic air attack, has been tamed and reshaped as a major new tactical weapon for the U.S. Army. Its bulk has been compressed and slimmed into a workable artillery shell. The shell can be fired with pinpoint accuracy by a new highly mobile atomic artillery piece. The atomic cannon is already in production...
...scores of laboratories gadgeteering goes on. Atomic medicines are being put into capsules, safer and easier to handle than long "hot" drinks. To irradiate cancers in the stomach and bladder, balloons are inserted which can be filled with radioactive liquid or fitted with a solid, pinpoint source of radioactivity. Radioactive gold wire is built into hollow nylon sutures to be stitched into a tumor. For external radiation, frighteningly powerful amounts of atomic energy are being baked into little wafers of cobalt ("the poor man's radium...
Norman Thomas, a candidate for president in the last five elections under the Socialist banner, will pinpoint foreign policy errors at 8 p.m. Monday in New Lecture Hall...
...reasons for this inadequacy are difficult to pinpoint. The trouble is not in the report's conclusions though many of them verge on platitudes, nor with its facts, though they are often trivial. The report's deepest fault is its lack of any clearly developed point of view against which the facts and conclusions can be measured...
...seven entries in the three halls is notorious, as far as the dean's office is concerned. The grades of men in the entry are probably no lower than average, but students have a good time on football weekends and occasionally overturn a fire-extinguisher or engage in pinpoint bombing out of the window...