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...find exactly where that was on the map. Shooting the sun with sextants, like mariners determining a ship's position, they discovered that the center had moved across the Indiana line at last to a spot near Olney (pop. 8,541), the county seat of Richland County...
...crew of technicians raced out to Richland, eight miles from the check-in gate, to test the suspected wrench and the patrolman's home. Both proved to be radioactive. At once, the intricate machinery of the Atomic Age whirred into action...
With Soap & Water. With a portable Alpha counter the technicians began retracing the patrolman's path from the plant all the way to Richland. The path was none too well marked. He had slipped the hot wrench into his metal lunchbox, and the box had acted as a shield-which frustrated the counter and had protected the patrolman's fellow passengers on the long bus ride home. But the patrolman, his home, his car, and a few areas around the plant (where he had carried the wrench in his hand) were hot enough to make the detectors sound...
Conditioned Reflex. In Richland Center, Wis., awaiting a hearing on charges of stealing a car from a used-car lot, Ervin Kristiansand and Herb Weiland broke out of jail, escaped in another car stolen from the same...
...Richland, a complete new town of 24,000, had sprung up on the desert at Washington's Hanford plutonium works, and two others-Kennewick and Pasco-had been virtually reborn as a result. Years of steady construction had ringed and dotted Seattle (pop. 525,000), Spokane (pop. 180,000), Portland (pop. 436,000) and dozens of other smaller towns with new stores, factories, and miles of freshly painted houses. The poorest of the houses boasted green lawns and flowers...