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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hiroshima). The military now thinks it is all right for civilians to know about it. The instrument's chief working parts are a small chamber, a bronze wire (charged by a battery) and a fine, platinum-coated quartz fiber one-thirtieth the thickness of a human hair. When X rays or gamma rays enter the chamber, they leave a trail of ions which collect on the wire, neutralize its charge and move the quartz fiber...
...doctor would corset his monkeys in waspish plaster casts (real girdles would not stay on), and X-ray them periodically. At week's end, Ivy thought he had a line on his monkeys: the Illinois Department of Public Health has a surplus shipment. No one had yet come forward with...
...Mister "X" and his photographer are CRIMSON members. They went to Hanover posing as New York reporters and returned with this story...
...tomorrow's CRIMSON, Mr. X will reveal what the Dartmouths plan to do with these uniforms...
Kennan is allegedly the "Mr. X," whose article, originally appearing in Foreign Affairs, revealed present U.S. policy toward Russia...