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...world's scientists, Argentina's new method of producing atomic energy was still "the baloney bomb." More than two weeks after Perón's triumphant announcement, no proof of real accomplishment had yet appeared. The few vague details made public were unconvincing, and Dr. Ronald Richter, just decorated by Perón for his "discovery," was unconvincing...
Made in Argentina. At the President's side was Dr. Ronald Richter, a plump, Austrian-born physicist (German University of Prague), who has been associated with Argentina's atomic program ever since it was begun all of nine months ago. Through an air force interpreter, the doctor announced in rich Austrian German: "What we have accomplished is strictly Argentine-it is infinitely superior to the system used in the U.S. . . . For some time now, Argentina has known the secret of the hydrogen bomb [but] I have always found a refusal on General Perón's part...
Later, Dr. Richter answered a few questions. Just what kind of explosion had he achieved? "I control the explosion," Richter replied loftily. "I can make it increase or diminish at my desire." Could the explosion be heard at any distance? Well, said the doctor, that would depend on whether there was a storm at the time. Had it been heard at San Carlos de Bariloche 6½ miles away...
There is no way of knowing whether Argentina has been able to discover a cheap method of producing atom bombs, Phillip G. Frank, lecturer on Physics and Mathematics, said last night. In the early 1930's Frank taught Dr. Ronald Richter, supposed head of the Argentine program...
...year's popular successes with The Wall, a fictional-documentary study of the extermination of Warsaw's Jews under Hitler. Though its reporting devices got in its way as a novel, The Watt's story mosaic gave it a strong cumulative impact. In The Town, Conrad Richter finished a trilogy of fine, craftsmanlike novels about the Ohio Country pioneers. The trilogy put Richter in the first rank of historical novelists, though it started no stampede to the bookshops by fans of the frigate-bustle-&-bosom school...