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...himself Salazar disclaimed any color prejudice: "I have many Negro friends," he said. "Both the doctor who handles my lab exams and my X-ray diagnostician are colored." On the other hand, he added, "No one is more racist than the Negro toward the white...
...anxious atomic age, the normal human array of senses is no longer enough. Radiation from nuclear reactors, radioisotopes. particle accelerators, bomb-test fallout, X-ray machines and countless other sources cannot be seen, felt, heard, smelled or tasted. And radiation from any of these sources can fatally fry a man before he has the faintest notion that anything is amiss...
Still, jazz survived. Smuggled U.S. recordings were duplicated on X-ray plates, bootlegged for fantastic prices (tab for an Elvis Presley disk: $12.50). Musicians copied new Louis Armstrong arrangements from Western radio programs. Students begged visiting U.S. musicians to play rock 'n' roll. Clandestine jazz bands became so common in Leningrad that the Young Communist League formed roving ''Nightingale Patrols" to stamp them...
...atomic blast in the Sahara a year ago, Dr. Kettlewell last spring collected early-arriving migratory moths and examined them under a Geiger counter. One specimen of Nomophila noctuella, a pale buff moth with a one-inch wingspread, showed a suspiciously high count. He pressed it on X-ray film and found that the radiation was coming not from the moth as a whole but from a single small spot in the thorax...
...played by Miriam Makeba, whose success in the role catapulted her to solo spots in U.S. nightclubs; she has been replaced in the opera by 29-year-old Peggy Phango. From the beginning, the semipro chorus has been filled with carpenters, shop clerks, schoolteachers, messengers, housemaids, typists, even an X-ray technician...