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Between forays to a Washington psychiatric hospital to sign Ezra Pound (see BOOKS) or to London to snag T. S. Eliot, the partners did their own taping, cover designing, package wrapping and mailing. Most of the orders were for their initial recording, a reverberating reading by Welsh Poet Dylan Thomas, whom they approached by sending him a note after a poetry reading ("We just signed our initials," recalls Marianne, "so he wouldn't know we were unbusinesslike females"). After five days of hounding him, they finally got the poet's agreement, and the six records he turned...
...Scholars membership includes fewer social scientists than would be found in a Kennedy list, and has no concentration of Nixon support comparable to that at Harvard for Senator Kennedy, Scholars for Nixon at the University include Roscoe Pound, University Professor Emeritus, and former dean of the Law School, and Herold C. Hunt, Charles William Eliot Professor of Education. William Y. Elliot, Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science, is another member of the Republican minority at Harvard and a member of the Republican Advisory Group, but not of the Scholars for Nixon...
...gold and silver exchange closed down trading after gold soared as high as $46.64 an ounce, and speculators bid as high as $49.38 on the black market. Gold trading on the Paris Bourse more than doubled. The Johannesburg stock exchange had its greatest activity in gold shares since the pound was devalued in 1949. and the Johannesburg Star headlined: DOLLAR VALUE ON FREE MARKET: 76?. Stocks in gold-mining companies soared...
...Pound Per Year. The chief trouble with the early centrifuges was their comparatively slow speed. This was serious because their effectiveness in separating U-235 rises with the fourth power of the speed of the rotor, i.e., doubling the speed would multiply the efficiency by 16. Better materials and construction methods have recently increased the speed to at least 40,000 r.p.m. Up-to-date centrifuges spin in a near vacuum, and they have complicated heating devices to make the gas circulate inside them in a way that multiplies their efficiency...
Professor Groth says that existing centrifuges require only one-tenth as much electric power as diffusion apparatus of the same capacity. The present Degussa model can be built for about $1,000. and according to Zippe, it will produce in one year about one pound of U-235. Improvements already in sight will increase this figure. Both Groth and Zippe believe that centrifuges will eventually compete economically with gaseous diffusion in making nuclear fuel, enriched in U-235, for atomic power plants...