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...syndicate, raised $4,000, bought a boat and some Geiger counters. With two other prospectors he started probing his way along the rocky lake shore. In a whole summer of crawling into every cove and climbing 1,000-ft. cliffs, the trio covered only 60 miles. One night a storm wrecked their boat. The others gave up but Campbell stayed, got another boat and went on alone. Ten miles farther on, at a place called Alona Bay, his Geiger counter buzzed wildly. A two-inch seam of uranium-bearing pitchblende stood out on the shoreline rock. Said Campbell: "I suddenly...
...draw one-inch and two-inch circles on the surface of a sphere, the bigger circle will have less than four times the area of the smaller one. This is because it is more curved by the sphere than the little circle, and is therefore more curled in upon itself...
...says Robertson, add a dimension. Take a deep breath and consider spheres instead of circles. In freshman solid geometry (which deals with ordinary "flat" space), a two-inch sphere has eight times the volume of a one-inch sphere. But if space is curved (a la Einstein), the two-inch sphere (curling in upon itself in space) will have less than eight times the volume of the one-inch sphere...
While the Assembly "debate" was going on, the Communist paper L'Humanité pushed out an extra with two-inch headlines in red ink: "Alerte! Ils Veulent Assassiner la République!" The paper screamed that "the American party tears up the constitution. . . . Workers, democrats, patriots, you have the strength to prevent the crime ordered by the exploiters and imperialists of New York." Pouncing quickly, M. Schuman charged L'Humanité with criminal incitation to revolt. Police invaded the newspaper's plant, smashed the plates...
...there are in every large community, and some of them may lose their jobs on account of the investigation. But to call the activities of movieland Red is a most vicious folly, serving only to keep the Committee itself, which is the real Un-American menace, in the two-inch headlines until it can make itself really dangerous. The victims may then be the colleges or the independent newspapers. Certainly nobody, Democrat or Republican, is safe when Louis B. Mayer, a dear friend a Hearst, has to defend him self against Communist charges...