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...large cash perquisites went to four U.S. scientists last week for their work in practical atomics. To Jesse Charles Johnson, director of the Atomic Energy Commission's raw materials division, went the Ambrose Monell Medal and a whopping $25,000 for directing the AEC's extraordinarily successful uranium prospecting and extraction program. Another $25,000, and congratulations from President Kennedy, went to a trio of Army civilian engineers for developing a nuclear explosive that has yet to be tested as a weapon. Robert M. Schwartz got $15,000 from the Secretary of the Army, and Milton E. Epton...
...land has a fierce and lonely beauty all its own-windswept plateaus, shifting seas of sand, canyons slashing down through layers of sandstone, and, always on the far horizon, mountains of barren granite. Beneath the ground is a fabulous treasure of coal, oil, sodium, magnesium, potassium, uranium. Coursing through the entire region-from Wyoming to Utah and Colorado, on to Arizona, New Mexico and California-is one of the greatest of U.S. river systems. Starting as a trickle in the Rocky Mountains, the Colorado River sweeps south and west to absorb such tributaries as the Gunnison River, the Roaring Fork...
...while this attractive little crew is waiting in port for their captain to sober up (it's been two weeks, y'know), so they can sail to Africa and make a killing in uranium, they become entangled with a British tourist and his wife (Jennifer Jones'). These tea-soaked commoners hold illusions of grandeur and romance which fool the intriguers as thoroughly as they fool the Britishers themselves...
...script goes bouncing along from gag to gag, and the next thing you know Bogart thinks the tourists own uranium-rich land, the English lady wants to run away with him, the rest of the mob wants in (on the uranium, not the lady), and the chilly British tourist asks for a hot water bottle but gets Gina Lollobrigida...
...nation is to get weapons-grade nuclear material," said Gore. "Once that is done, either as the product or byproduct of a nuclear plant, the nation has acquired a nuclear capability and can set off explosions." For the moment, plutonium is expensive and hard to make. But uranium is now a glut on world markets; with the expected development of a new, cheap German method of getting fissionable material by centrifuge (TIME, Oct. 24), the cost of a nuclear blast can be scaled down to the poor nation's level. Says Physicist Herman Kahn: "With the kind of technology...