Word: stacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into the historic Manhattan (atom bomb) Project, working through the war with great effect on the key problem of separating the isotopes of uranium. Not until news of the Hiroshima bomb came out did Libby mention his work at home. On that day he came home with a tall stack of newspapers and said triumphantly: "This is what I've been doing." Libby did not stay with the atom bomb after the war-not because he was opposed to working on weapons, but because, like many other scientists, he wanted to get back to independent research. He was taken...
...kitchen is the hangar. Each ramp has its ramp commander, an assistant ramp commander, a navigator in charge of flights between hangar and ramp, a hot pilot to supervise hot drinks, a cold pilot for cold drinks ("Sir, fuel injection is on the ramp"), and a crew chief to stack the dishes. When a cadet is ready to leave, he says: "New Cadet Blank reports in No. i take-off position. Am I clear?" The ramp commander, using control-tower jargon, can either "hold" him or demand: "What are you, Mister?" (to which the cadet must...
...Downtown Parking Co. Inc. In residential neighborhoods, small lots and garages can ease the problem: Architect Richard Roth, planner of a score of Manhattan's newest office buildings, estimates that a 60-car lot can be made to pay off. With coin-operated gates, automatic devices to stack cars and other new parking machines, garages can bring down handling charges and cut rates...
After the robber patrol knocks off a train, Ryan inducts a new enlisted man, tough-talking Robert Stack. Ryan does not know that Stack is an undercover cop for the U.S. Army. But Ryan has a paid informer himself-a Tokyo newsman of mixed Oriental background. This Peiping Tom discovers Stack's true identity, and then comes the fierce chase through Tokyo. It all ends with Villain Ryan, despite his prowess as a crooked field commander, getting his comeuppance at a rooftop carnival...
Actor Ryan is smooth and businesslike, and Stack is competent. Next to the view, though, the biggest delight is Japan's picture-book beauty Shirley Yamaguchi, who plays Stack's "kimono" (i.e., moll); she has all the fluid rhythm of a ripple in a pond...