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...star of the show was Actor Rod Steiger, who gave a tense and ably controlled performance as the GCA operator nursing the lost plane down its electronic path to safety. Steiger got so much realism into his acting that a viewer in Chicago phoned in to find out if he were actually a Marine radar operator. The answer: no. Steiger is a 27-year-old professional actor. During World War II, he got as far from aircraft as possible: he was torpedoman in a submarine...
Better Answer? The dissatisfaction was mirrored in the postwar hot-rod craze-in which backyard mechanics sought to improve on Detroit's product-and the importation of thousands of foreign cars, such as terrierlike M.G.s, Jaguars, Porsches and Lancias (see color pages). Sports-car clubs sprang up everywhere, and raced their cars at Bridgehampton and Watkins Glen, N.Y., Elkhart Lake, Wis., Pebble Beach, Calif. and Sebring...
When you're ambling down Massachusetts Avenue worrying about how many cases you should have put into McCloskey's first question, and you get clipped in the ear with a hickory stick and spiked in the ribs by an aluminum rod-then you know that exams are over and the big exodus has begun. They're all off to the slopes...
Nearly every up & coming laboratory now has a hot spot where radioactive material is handled with gingerly precaution. Hottest spot of this sort in any non-Government lab is the bottom of a water-filled tank at California's Stanford Research Institute, where a rod and four nesting cylinders of radioactive cobalt glow with a weird blue light. Together they weigh only 10 Ibs. and they cost only $22,500, but they give off as much radiation (4,500 curies) as $80 million worth of radium. If their shielding water were to leak away, they would give...
...stands of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago, 42 scientists stared intently at a strange pile of graphite bricks. The time was 9:45 on a morning just ten years ago. Italian-born Nobel Laureate Enrico Fermi gave the signal for the experiment to begin. A cadmium control rod was slowly drawn from position. Geiger counters clicked. Control lights flashed. The pen in an automatic recording device moved over graph paper in a rising curve. At 3:45 Dr. Fermi calmly announced: "The reaction is self-sustaining; the curve is exponential." A chain reaction had been achieved...