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Having conquered unfamiliar Broadway in Little Me, great Caesar is having a rough go this fall in his own accustomed medium. This is his third of nine specials, hopefully the first good...
Produce to Paris. To farmers, Lamour's irrigation scheme was attractive. Less attractive was his proposal that they plow under 300,000 acres of vines and turn to cultivating unfamiliar crops. But Lamour had two persuasive arguments. His diversified Farm of the Partridge was conspicuously profitable. And at Lamour's urging, the government (which is trying to reduce wine production) offered to pay $363 an acre to every Midi farmer who plowed under his grapevines...
Nitrobenzene is not a desirable rocket fuel; its production was shown only as a demonstration. But R.P.I, chemists are confident that their complex synthesis process can also make exotic high-energy fuels that cannot be manufactured in any other way-fuels with unfamiliar names that are now only whispered because of stringent Air Force secrecy. The big trick is to control accurately the speed of the ions. If they move too slowly, they do not react; if they move too fast, they break up the target molecules and form unwanted products...
...Tammany came in 1957, when upper West Side Democrats chose him as district leader. By 1960 he was popular enough to wrest the Congressional nomination for New York's 20th district from Tammany's inert Ludwig Teller. This fall, when Tammany and upstate Republicans reapportioned him into a largely unfamiliar district, Ryan scored a strong victory over De Sapio's man, Herbert Zelenko...
...went to Rutherford's laboratory at Manchester, England, just after Rutherford had advanced the theory that atoms are miniature solar systems with electrons revolving like planets around a sunlike nucleus. The idea had serious faults, which Bohr, then 27, spotted promptly; he corrected them by applying the unfamiliar principles of Planck's new quantum theory...