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Exploring the Unknown (Sun. 9 p.m., Mutual). Clifton Fadiman tells the atomic story from Oak Ridge to Bikini...
Albert Einstein, then an unknown clerk in a Swiss patent office, rescued science. In his Theory of Special Relativity (1905) he abandoned Newton's assumption of independent mass and force. In its place he put the assumption, well supported by observation, that the speed of light in a vacuum is constant, no matter what the speed of its source...
...electric fan output was close to schedule. Refrigerators were up to 93%; vacuum cleaners 57%, irons 91%. But toasters, broilers and roasters were still way down. Radio manufacturers were turning out a million radios monthly, almost the 1941 production level. (The public was already balking at buying unknown brands.) Shoe manufacturers will probably reach an alltime U.S. high this year of 550 million pairs; tires were now plentiful. Production of housing components was improving. Item: 97,000 bathtubs were made...
Hungarian-born George Tabori, 32, is almost unknown as a novelist. Educated in Germany, trained as a journalist in the Balkans and the Middle East, he now lives in England, has worked for the BBC since 1943. Companions of the Left Hand,* his second novel (the first: Beneath the Stone, 1945), is a sardonic political parable, overwritten in spots, preachy in others, but crafty, speculative and Koestler-like in its ambiguities and undertones...
Jaakko Mikkola's thinclads are an unknown quantity if the point-getting Fisher brothers do not return to heave the weights around the Stadium this summer. The track schedule is indefinite, as are those for all minor sports, but the H.A.A. foresees little difficulty in arranging home-and-home matches with other schools in the area who are conducting full-scale summer sessions...