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...Shower of Stars (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., CBS). Burlesque, a musical version of the Broadway hit play, with Dan Dailey Marilyn Maxwell, Joan Blondell, Jack Oakie and James Gleason...
Cigar-Shaped Peril. In the Pacific last March, the hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll sent a shower of deadly radioactive dust (mostly pulverized coral) over a vast cigar-shaped area extending 220 miles downwind from the blast. Along a strip up to 20 miles wide, extending 140 miles downwind, the fall-out-if it had come down in a populated area-would have seriously threatened the lives of nearly every human. At a distance of 160 miles the lives of half the people would be threatened; at 190 miles 5% to 10% might die (varying with individual reaction...
With their recent shower of gifts to the nation's colleges and universities (TIME, Jan. 24 et seg.), U.S. corporations have shown their increasing awareness of the value of a liberal education. But gifts aside, none has gone so far in its appreciation as the Bell Telephone Co. of Pennsylvania. Last week Bell announced the results of as bold an experiment as has ever been tried in business: a fulltime, ten-month course in the liberal arts for young executives...
...Shower of Stars (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., CBS). That's Life, with Betty Grable, Harry James, Johnnie Ray, Larry Storch...
These slight changes had at least three motivations. They provided the peasant with added incentives to work harder on the kolkhoz; they provided Russia with a propaganda vehicle with which to shower the world; and they served to improve the morale of the peasantry. But, unfortunately for Malenkov, the actual production of consumer goods was far short of what the leaders had predicted, producing an economy in Russia which is almost inflationary...