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...Munitions Assignments Board, the top U.S.-British Unit which, with the Combined Chiefs of Staff, allocates all United Nations war equipment. Unofficially, Harry Hopkins often serves as the President's eyes, ears, hands, feet, brains. His bony shoulders are piled high with the war's weightiest military secrets. He shuns human contacts outside his job. By nature outspoken and gregarious, he frankly tells reporters why he avoids them: he knows too much and he loves to talk...
Back to his post in Pearl Harbor went Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, commander of the mightiest fleet and amphibious force in world history. For more than a week he had been in Washington, planning, conferring. Before he left, Navymen whispered, some of the U.S.'s weightiest war decisions were made. The war against Japan depended no longer on European developments...
...simplified presentation of a jawbreaking language was available last week at the Oxford University Press, Bombay branch. Tibetan Word Book is also one of the weightiest contributions to the Western study of Tibetan or Bod-skad (pronounced Bho-ka) since Hungary's Alexander Csoma de Kb'ros, originally hoping to discover the Hungarians' remote ancestry, did his arduous philological pioneering in a Tibetan monastery more than a century ago. Authors of the new work are two British civil servants who have worked in Tibet and India, Sir Basil John Gould and Hugh Edward Richardson...
...electron-hurling machine, weightiest contribution to atomic physics since the cyclotron was invented in 1931, was unveiled before science and the world last week. It can hurl electrons-particles of negative electricity-at nearly the speed of light. It can produce 20,000,000-volt X-rays, some ten times more than the world's biggest X-ray machine. It can out-radiate all the extracted radium supplies on earth-and its further abilities have scarcely been explored. While U.S. scientists speculated upon the discoveries the device might lead to, they welcomed to their front ranks its brilliant young...
Last week, at Philadelphia's Academy of Music, tall, stoop-shouldered, 66-year-old Rachmaninoff stood on the conductor's platform for the first time in 30 years, earnestly rowed the Philadelphia Orchestra through two of his weightiest works. One was his Third and latest Symphony, the other his 45-minute-long choral symphony The Bells, which needs a 200-man chorus as well as a 100-man orchestra to boom out its melodious refrain. For several days he had given up piano practice to brush up his conducting technique. Said he: "Playing the piano and conducting...