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...colored bars of uranium 235 from the bottom of one pool and guiding them gently into the other. As they did, a gauge of amber-colored numbers shot up and up. Near by, another figure stood ready to halt the proceedings by pushing a button marked SCRAM. Directed the squawk box: "Insert H-6." As the last bar moved into place, an amber smear shot across the gauge, the radiation count soared to a million a second -and an atomic blaze sprang to life. Thus the nation's first large, privately owned test reactor, built by General Electric...
Shaunessy observed that his opinion on this matter was shared "all around the league," and suggested that "Jordan Olivar has a nerve to squawk...
...producer runs over his budget, U.A. lets him alone, keeps its fingers crossed; the extra cost may be made up at the box office. Says Director William Wyler, who is $1,000,000 over his budget as he winds up making The Big Country: "I wish these guys would squawk. It would make me feel better...
...fringe of Budapest, smoke pours steadily from factory chimneys, and in the city, movie houses disgorge streams of blinking customers (Marty and Trapeze are sellouts). In bars (where only foreigners and party bureaucrats have cash enough to drink regularly) U.S.-make jukeboxes squawk the raucous normalcy of rock 'n' roll. But the iron fist looms through the shoddy substitute for velvet: at a Budapest restaurant, a grey-haired old waiter is seized by security police, vanishes. His crimes: he has a young relative who is studying to be a priest, and he has been observed chatting with foreigners...
...Army's promise (for that matter the Army, with constant pleas for a stake in space, did not give him a chance to forget), and two weeks after taking office he made his decision. Wernher von Braun heard about it when Medaris' voice came over his Redstone squawk box. "Wernher," said Medaris...