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...After the war, many scientists, appalled at the human toll their work had taken in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, deserted the field of nuclear-weapons development. Ogle was not one of them. Says he of the wartime deaths the bombs had caused: "Our purpose was to do just that." Congress placed atomic development under a newly created, civilian-controlled Atomic Energy Commission in the hope that its pursuits would be mainly peaceful. Yet some scientists were already warning that the U.S. atomic monopoly could not long be maintained, that the Russians were making progress. A far-sighted AEC commissioner. Rear Admiral...
...cabin has served nobly for 30 years, but weather, hard usage, and general decay have taken their toll. The HMC also reports that the Forest Service was rather interested in having it removed as it constituted a fire hazard and was blocking progress on the Ski Trail...
...Trujillo's family departed, thousands of Dominicans previously silenced by terror have come forward to describe the crimes of the dead dictator's secret police, his army and personal goon squads. Last week Dominican Attorney General Eduardo Antonio Garcia Vasquez, who investigated the stories, reported a preliminary toll: known murders plus those missing and presumed dead come to 5,700 in the past five years. The total for the Trujillo regime's full 31 years may run to the tens of thousands...
Absent from Broadway since he gave Charley's Aunt a nimble whirl eleven years ago, Ray Bolger shows the toll of his own 58 years, not only in his froggily croaking voice, but in the dances that he pointedly sits out. Only in a second-act number called I'm Fascinating does he finally take the dance floor (and the house) with his eccentrically masterful specialty, the best-ever human imitation of a drunken penguin on ice. Top supporting honors go to Anita Gillette as a sex-hexed coed with a diaphanous sentence structure ("I desired his body...
...outside your own field, too," she said. "You have to escape the parochialism of seeing your own discipline as a basis from which others proceed. The physicist should not claim that the artist serves as his technician, for example." Mrs. Wheeler warned that one-sided education is taking its toll today in the newly-independent nations. The young people, trained in technology but not the liberal arts, are susceptible to the specious appeal of Communism. The liberally educated older generation can resist its simplistic thought...