Word: rays
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Died. John Ray Dunning, 67, pioneering American nuclear physicist; of a heart attack; in Key Biscayne, Fla. Dunning directed the 1939 experiment at Columbia University's cyclotron in Manhattan that confirmed the findings of scientists in Germany and elsewhere about the possibility of controlled atomic fission. "Believe we have observed new phenomenon of far-reaching consequences," he scrawled in a diary. Dunning's later research showed that Uranium 235 was the most fissionable isotope, a discovery that led to the gas-diffusion method of refining U-235, currently used in nuclear bombs and most atomic power plants...
More than 17 million visitors per month are expected to descend on Washington, D.C., between now and the end of the Bicentennial celebration. But one Washington resident, a senior official in the Federal Communications Commission, has undertaken a bitter campaign to keep Americans away from their capital. William B. Ray, 67, has written to 91 of the nation's largest newspapers urging tourists to avoid Washington "this year, next year and every year until the District of Columbia and Federal Government are able to exercise a reasonable degree of control over crime...
...Ray's fear is understandable. Nearly two years ago, his wife Sue returned from a noontime shopping trip to find an intruder in their Northwest Washington apartment. The man warned her not to scream or run; she did both. He tackled her in the hallway and, as Ray says, "just beat the hell out of her," breaking her nose, jaw and several ribs. She was in the hospital for eleven days and required plastic surgery. Her attacker was never found. Last May Mrs. Ray died of a heart disorder that was unrelated to the attack...
...good to know all about the wayward economics of big business that caused the Depression, and about the NRA, unemployment curves, the deprivations of the Dust Bowl and Social Security. But what about the time Huey Long met Ina Ray Hutton? Moments like this-of which there are many in Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?-may not change history, but they can bring it close as no transcript or statistic can. It is the unproclaimed thesis of this breezy, weightless chronicle of the Depression that time is the sum of events great and small, and that the footnotes...
...record, Ina Ray Hutton, with her all-girl orchestra in the background, presents the Governor of Louisiana with a rendition of his own composition, Every Man a King. The Governor is seated during the performance, blank-faced and staring straight ahead as one hand flaps in an approximation of syncopation. He thanks Ina Ray and allows that her chances are good, although for what he does not say. The singer and the politician look and sound, accordingly, like contestant and M.C. on some cosmic amateur hour...