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...peace had been restored, Kadar's Minister of Trade Sandor Ronai pleaded: "Let us put an end to the fighting . . . Let us start work in the factories and fields. Let us begin to build a free, independent, socialist Hungary." At Pecs in south Hungary, miners dynamited the prized uranium mines...
...Colorado, Democratic Lieutenant Governor Stephen McNichols, 41, a successful lawyer and uranium millionaire, safely beat out Don Brotzman, a young (34) state senator and husky handshaker who was counting on-but never could catch-Ike's coattails...
...Pocket. Opposing coaches insist that the one indispensable part of that system is Dodd's luck. "If an atom bomb went off in this room," said Georgia's Wallace Butts at a football banquet last winter, "Bobby Dodd would come up with a handful of uranium in his pocket...
...slaves." Idol Smashing. The Petofi spirit spread like wildfire. All over Budapest there were demonstrations. Student manifestoes demanded religious freedom, the release of Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, the public trial of Rakosi and his lieutenants, sweeping economic reforms. One demanded that the Russians explain what they had done with Hungarian uranium. The Marseillaise and the Kossuth anthem (after Kossuth, another hero of 1848) were sung in the streets. Thousands of cadets, later joined by 800 Hungarian officers, swung out of the military academy to join the students. As if by magic, hundreds of placards appeared bearing slogans: RUSSIANS GO HOME...
Britain, short of fuel for her rapidly growing industries, needs atomic power more than the U.S. or Russia. In trying to get it as quickly as possible, British scientists have settled for a comparatively primitive reactor, which uses natural uranium for fuel and is cooled by pressurized carbon dioxide. As they gain experience, Britain's atomic engineers plan to shift to more advanced reactors...