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...000th of a cent's worth of barium chloride, a cheap rat poison. Dr. Bernard Waldman, head of the nuclear physics laboratory at the University of Notre Dame, aimed a Geiger counter at six "radioactive" Magic Spikes in the courtroom. The judge and jurors heard no telltale rat-tat-tat...
...conditions. Such defects, Hargrave argues, reduce efficiency, impair health and affect the workers' home life. The source of his data: 2,549 workers at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard (now closed) whose cornmandant had invited Hargrave to make the study. Amid the clang of steel, the rat-a-tat-tat of jackhammers and riveting machines, Earman Hargrave interviewed man after man. Some of his findings: ¶| Even the hard of hearing had no trouble with common shop talk, e.g., such words as blower, rivet, steel. But unfamiliar words spoken by strangers were unintelligible under the same conditions...
...After World War I, Sophoulis joined the late Eleutherios Venizelos' Liberal Party, became its leader after Venizelos' death. Under Sophoulis' vacillating hand, it rapidly declined. Through Greece's coups d'état and minor revolutions, Sophoulis had usually tried to stick close to the middle of the road. He was an antiroyalist but he served five Greek kings; he was an anti-Communist but he was frequently supported by the Communists in Parliament; he was an anti-Fascist but during the Metaxas dictatorship (1936-41) he simply lived in retirement. After World...
...Disguised Professor. Neutralia itself (which, Waugh cautiously explains, represents no existing state) has suffered from "dynastic wars, foreign invasion, disputed successions, revolting colonies, endemic syphilis, impoverished soil, masonic intrigues, revolutions, restorations, cabals, juntas, pronunciamentos, liberations, constitutions, coups d'état, dictatorships, assassinations, agrarian reforms, popular elections, foreign intervention, repudiation of loans, inflations of currency, trade unions, massacres, arson, atheism, secret societies." It has become a totalitarian republic whose dictator is popular because he kept it out of World...
Round-faced Robert B. Jung, 34, the founder of Good News, is a Berlin-born Czech, a veteran of the anti-Hitler underground. He is now U.S. correspondent for Zurich's daily Die Tat, the weekly Die Weltwoche, and his own European feature agency, Dukas. His helper for Vol. i, No. i, was Correspondent Hans Steinitz of the Bern daily Der Bund. They timed their maiden issue to meet Mrs. Jung on her arrival from a European trip. She had wed her husband under protest last spring, feeling that journalism was "all dissension, fear and hate," and Jung...