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According to Oldenberg, the reason that Geiger counters in the Rochester, N.Y. area were able to detect radiation after Saturday's snow is that the instruments are exceedingly sensitive. "If you approach a Geiger counter with a wrist-watch which has a luminous dial, it will sound like a thunder-storm," he pointed...
...else. Valentine put in a distress call for the price czars of World War II days-Leon Henderson, Paul Porter, Chester Bowles-and conferred earnestly with them for two days. He patched together some suggestions and sent them to Wilson. They were not enough. With a flick of his wrist, Mobilizer Wilson got Valentine fired and installed in his place Washington-wise Eric Johnston, $125,000-a-year boss of Hollywood's Hays office and ex-president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (see below). Before Johnston even got his feet planted under a bureaucratic desk, a freeze...
Here was a conception brand-new to the long and fruity annals of jurisprudence. Under this conception, if the policeman finds that the dagger has penetrated the victim's flesh, it is permitted that he seize the criminal by the wrist and force him to withdraw the knife; but he may not take the dagger away, much less arrest the criminal...
...Central Intelligence men--the kind that sip cognacs in little Bulgarian cafes. The thought of agents around the College infecting piles of dirty laundry with wire recorders is terrifying. From this it is only a short step to Steve Roper buttonhole-cameras, boutonnieres that squirt poison, and two-way wrist radios...
...Times had called the theft "a coarse and vulgar crime," and the BBC had banned all jokes mentioning the Stone, including the remark that no Scot could have taken the Stone because no Scot would have left a wrist watch behind. Said the Manchester Guardian: "Need we English be much wounded by the loss of the Stone, if it is never recovered? We have a far better and more respectable one of our own, the King's Stone, now at Kingston-on-Thames, on which the Saxon Kings were crowned...