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Greenglass said that the plutonium was in the form of a sphere. He may have meant a hollow sphere, but more probably he meant that the plutonium was cut into small pointed chunks that would form a sphere of more than critical mass when pushed together by the "implosion." In the unexploded bomb, the pieces were probably separated just enough to keep them from acting as a critical mass...
...sphere of foreign policy, The Freeman promised to "favor the constant growth of cooperation between free peoples" with an emphasis on "the development of mutual goodwill." Just what type of goodwill and cooperation the magazine wanted to promote was clarified in "Why Europe Resents Us" (October 2). According to its author, William Schlamm, "our long and costly attempt to save the Old World" has produced an unexpected reaction among the Europeans. "Today the exasperating European contempt for America is no longer the mere pastime of arrogant and more or less discountable British and Continental snobs." As Mr. Schlamm sees...
Lippold was moved to give an earnest explanation of his brainchild: "The center of this construction is actually designed around a sphere. The 'transparency' of the sphere gives opportunity to visualize such inner tensions as activate all aspects of earthly life: personal, social and international. Out of these inner relationships, the bursting of stem and branches from this 'World-Seed' resolved the whole conception into a treelike form, suggesting continuing growth. Thus, this piece is really a 'World-Tree,' its four branches reaching to the four main points of the compass, its trunk...
Such a policy would, of course, write off China as lost to the sphere of influence of the democracies. It would mean giving up our fond hopes that China has been an errant prodigal son, who would return after discovering that a new land redistribution is meaningless, and that Russia is more an "unequal" ally than any of the western nations, who in the past forced China to surrender more in treaties than she was given. On the other band it might solve the most pressing problem of the United Nations, whose main concern, despite the recent arguments over...
...Chinese troops in Korea," speculated the Review, "were not saving the reputation of Moscow but serving the assertion of China as a new factor in Asia. The former Soviet sphere of influence is under the occupation of Chinese troops...