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Enclosed in a white-and-green building the shielded pile looked like a mighty concrete block. A red light warned that it was working. Behind the massive walls, a blizzard of darting neutrons was smashing atomic nuclei, creating hundreds of radioactive isotopes so "hot" that invisible specks of them could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Atomic Hot Spot | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

In Moscow, Generalissimo Stalin reviewed a parade of 2,000,000. Proclaimed Russia's dictator: "We should not forget for a single minute the intrigues of international reaction, which is hatching plans of a new war. ... It is necessary to be constantly vigilant, to protect, as the apple of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Bread & Circuses | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

As the Red Army's vigilant rocket guns and long-range artillery rolled through Red Square, Stalin stood on the topmost level of Lenin's tomb. Smiling affably, he leaned over to the level below, bright with bemedaled Red Army officers, and invited Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Bread & Circuses | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

Into Zion. Landing in Palestine is a touch-&-go operation. The vigilant British patrol is composed of coast guard stations on 24-hour watch, motor launches and cutters, radar posts. If a ship eludes all these, the authorities may throw a smoke screen around a suspected landing place, then intensively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFUGEES: Exodus | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

But what gives the film its modest greatness and its permanent value is its record of one of the few beneficent giants of this century: Toscanini. Often the camera shows that he is singing, shouting, speaking through the music, and for the sake of history it is too bad that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Toscanini: Hymn of the Nations | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

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