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Buried deep in the desert near the plutonium plant at Hanford, Wash. are thick-walled concrete treasure chests, guarded by a stronger curse than watches over any Egyptian tomb. If a thief were to try to loot them, a blast of radioactivity would strike bim dead. But the dangerous treasure-"fission products" from plutonium manufacture-may some day revolutionize many branches of industry. Last week Stanford Research Institute issued a weighty report on the fission products and how they may be used...
...fourth fall of Seoul was a sad business, something like the capture of a tomb. Only 200,000 of Seoul's original 1,500,000 population were still there. The broken city brooded over its own destruction...
...religion; he believes Christianity is in a twilight stage. For him, a "little pseudo-Gothic church on Broadway, tucked away amongst the skyscrapers, is symbolic of the age. On the whole face of the globe the civilization that has conquered it has failed to build a temple or a tomb...
With that offhand explanation, Mike Di Salle last week issued Ceiling Price Regulation 7, a new step in the fight to stabilize sky-high prices. The order wiped out the general price freeze for about 200,000 retail items and substituted instead a system exhumed from the tomb of World War II's OPA. The new plan, "retail margin control," specifies that dollars & cents price margins may be no greater than those prevailing Feb. 24. The plan applies to clothing, shoes, furniture, rugs, bedding-in short, about 75% of the things department stores sell-and affects some...
...guests will pay their special respects to his memory. Wearing the simple costume Verdi prescribed for them-the men, black suits, string ties and soft wide-brimmed hats, the women, plain, dark grey dresses-they will gather in the Casa's open courtyard, lay flowers on the tomb where Verdi and his wife Giuseppina lie buried. At night, those still able to go to La Scala may sit in the royal box for a performance of Verdi's Requiem...