The Brussels Post, 1958-07-09, Page 5TOO Bad We Can't
Eat Isotopes!
Nowadays when "pie in the
sky" is an apt clescriptinn of
toed costs, it's a ceinfert to hear
about any sort of price realise.,
tion—any sort at all.
And that's what .the Atomic
EnerlaY Commission has just an-
nounced on „five radio-isotopes.
Prices are away down on the
radium-like by-products of ato-
nine fission,
In general, Oak Ridge, Tenn.,
prices now are only one-tenth
of the old costs of Cesium. 137,
Promethium 147, Cerium 144,
Strontium 90 mid Technetium 90.
The new cut rates are expected
to encourage wider distribution
and use of radio-isotopes in in-
dustry, medicine and research,
The prices are based on esti-
mated production from the new
multi-curie fission product pilot
plant at Oak Ridge, scheduled.
for operation this summer.
All sorts of magical things are
done with these off-beat ele-
ments, many of which were un-
known before the advent of the
atomic reactor.
Some give off 'rays that pass
through a fast-moving strip of
steel, accurately gauging its
thickness on the fly. Others serve
as tracers, moving through the
human blood stream to reveal
the location and distribution of
new wonder drugs.
Some isotopes travel through
oil pipelines, tipping off a Gei-
ger counter when a tagged con-
signment of kerosene arrives on
the heels of a flow of high-test
gasoline. Isotopes help chemists
unravel the mysterious makeup
of molecules.
Curie means the radioactivity
given off by a grain of radium.
(It takes 281/4 grams to make
an ounce.) The old price per
curie on. Cesium 137 was $14.
Now it's $1 to $2, depending on
the size of the order.
Promethium 147 used to cost
$500 a curie; now it's only $1.75.
And listen to this price reduc-
tion: Cerium 144 has tumbled
from $1,000 to a mere $1 to $2
per curie. Strontium 90, which
used to cost $500, is now $5 to
$10.
Those are all short-lived iso-
topes with half-lives ranging
from 282 days to 30 years. The
half-life of radium, by contrast,
is some 1500 years.
• The really high-priced Oak
Ridge isotope is Technetium 99.
It has a half-life of 212,000 years
and sells—like radium—by the
millicurie, which is one-thous-
andth of a curie. The old milli-
- curie price of Technetium 99
Was $1,000, but the new cost is
only $80.
Now if the AEC could only do
something about the price of
plain old hamburger. — Denver
Post.
MERRY MENAGERIE
"And noW the doe says I've
got athlete's HAND:"
-' ARCTIC CIRCLE
Fairbanks*
ALASKA
Anchorage
Bering
Se ,
MILES
0 200
Pacific
Ocean
Nome
ATOMIC HARBOR — Excavation
of a harbor by means of a
nuclear explosion may at at-
tempted in Alaska. 'Retiring
Atomic Energy Commission
Chairman Lewis L. Strauss dis-
closed that the project, if found
to be safe and practicable,
could take place in 1960. Lack
of harbors on Alaska's north-
west coast has hampered de-
velopment of the mineral-rich
area. Survey parties this sum-
mer will visit the possible site,
between Capes Seppings and
Thompson, north of the Arctic
Circle,
choice is "Angels in the Out-
field," a 1951 baseball comedy
with Paul Douglas. He has seen
it at least fifteen times.
While the President and. the
First Lady sometimes ask for
specific films, the preliminary
selection is usually left to a 29-
year-old Navy electrician's mate
first class named Paul Fisher of
Williamsport,. Pa., who has been
the White House projectionist for
five years. In his booth, awaiting
ithmediate showing last week,
was a varied array of movies:
"The Old Man and the Sea," "No
Time for' Sergeants," "Cowboy,"
'&Bullwhip," and "The. Bravados"..
The White House cinema was
a whim of F.D.R., who originally
planned to use the space as a hat-
check room for diplomatic recep-
tions. After its conversion into
a movie house, the President
jocularly Called it the "Hatbox."
It was refurnished with an acous-
tic ceiling, a. thick bleu rug, and
gold draperies.
Today, the Eisenhowers attend
movies in the Hatbox Once or
twice a week.. They Sit in the first
row, which consists of four com-
fortable armchairs upholstered in
e.bliie damask, Behind them are
ten rows Of straightback Wood
chairs that can seat 55 more.'
"The Predident watches Movies
for relaxation — get away
from his problems for a few min-
utes," White. House press secre-
tary James Hagerty said last.
week. An Old friend, who has
watched many screenings with
the President, sums up Mr. Eisen-
hoWer's tastes this way: "He
doesn't like war movies or tear-
jerkers. 1,-le figures he's had
enough troubled during the day.
He doesn't like to be lectured or
shaken up, either, Most of all, he
doesn't like smutty pictures."
The Eisenhowers cfften use the
Hatb6X to Watch films of tit pro
grams they missed or Want to see
again. On a thoroughly hoheScep-,
ist level, the President also Wes
the theatre for closed-door shOW-
ingd of top-secret Pentagon filing
deinotiatrating riCW missiles and
weapons.
Audience reaction is a ticklish
subject Ili the tiny White house
theatre, particularly for eotnedy
"No Matter how funny 'the pic-
ture is you never can be Mire It
Will get off the ground," said a
faintly friend, "Everyone alWays
waits fat the President to laugh
first. NO one 'dared let ge spina-
tarieously for tear of laughing
atone."
Q. How thin I drive Mills bite'
hard, *OM without diffieidt0
A, Dip the nails iiti7 `Oil Or
greases or rub the points over a.
cake of tOap'. This also 'applies
dereWS:
Oa intAlt--,As an of ficer • leans the horizon With binoculars
across- the border into Syrld, tebaneSe• soldiers fire a mortar
from • •ct hilltop .poSt •overlooking the !road. froth Tripoli to ths
Border!. h
e
rebels 'Were tepOrteil.:Sniugglitig frot*
del'OSS ihe border to support thl revolt atjetinst prO4-
Weiterit president Cliarnearh
White House Movies
While President Eisenhower
and Prime Minister Harold Mac-
millan examined East-West prob-
lems and the French coup d'etat
in the White House one night
last week, a movie coincidentally
titled "Paris Holiday" was being
shown nearby in the nation's
most exclusive theatre. The
moviegoers included: Mrs. Eisen-
hower, Lady Dorothy Macmillan,
Mrs. John Foster Dulles, and Mrs.
Neil McElroy.
The theatre itself was a nar-
now 100- by 20-foot chamber on
the ground floor of the White
House. Its principal patrons were
President and Mrs. Eisenhower,
their family, and their friends.
To the ten Washington movie
distributors who supply the
White House with films free of
charge, Mr. Eisenhower seems
the most avid movie fan ever to
occupy the Presidency. They re-
call that Franklin D. Roosevelt
liked an occasional actions pic-
ture, particularly Sh e r lock
Holmes whodunits and murder
thrillers; President Tr um an
seemed to prefer poker to movies.
President Eisenhower's favorites
are Westerns, but he also enjoys
comedies and musicals. Mamie,
on the other hand, likes romantic
dramas.
Sometimes the Eisenhowers re-
quest special showings of car-
toons and Disney movies for
their grandchildren. Often, the
President proposes a movie to his
dinner guests. "We've got a good
show," he has been known to tell
them. "Do you want to see it?"
No one can recall when a guest
has declined.
At a reception early last month
for Britain's Field Marshal Vis-
count Montgomery, the President
ordered a screening of "Gigi," a
glittering film the Eisenhowers
had previewed a few weeks be-
fore with so much pleasure that
it was shown for the third time
last week for the wives of Cab-
inet members. A few months ago,
the President surprised a Wash-
ington film supplier by' request-
ing a rerun of "Springfield Rifle,"
a Gary Cooper adventure he had
seen before the 1952 campaign.
Another of his favorites is Grace
Kelly ("To Catch a Thief," "Rear
Window"), who visited the White
House after her marriage.
The President's all-time film
• 'LIKE A BIRD-.JUMpirig with rbCket assist' is Ed lartioWski, lest .„.„
stead assistant for Reattion Motets Division of Thiokol ChdrriCal
Corpareitiori,, as he demonstrates 01 power-cististed leap Using,
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Speed of Si 'race Horse.
Why Those Yankees
Keep On Winning
A former big-league pitcher,
Joe Black, accosted Casey Sten-
gel with a bizarre problem one
day last week in Yankee Sta-
dium, "I'm teaching in an ele-
mentary school now," Black
said, "and I'm coaching the
baseball team. We've, played
fourteen gamesand lost fourteen
14 games — and lost 14, I fig-
ured I'd come to the master to
find out what I could teach
them."
Stnegel's ancient face creased
in a grin. "Played fourteen and
lost fourteen?" he said. "You
better teach 'em to lose in the
right spirit."
At the moment, master Sten-
gel was giv,ing the world a mag-
nificent lesson in how to make
a team win with fierce zeal des-
pite the straw-man appearance.
of its opposition. What the Ame-
rican League could not seem to
exert from without in the way of
exhilarating pressure, Stengel,
genius of player manipulation,
was creating from within.
Until Mickey Mantle hit six
home runs recently, the Yan-
kees, once baseball's Bombers,
did not have an individual slug-
ging leader. But collectively the
roster-deep excellence which
Stengel exploited was producing
genuine competition for the Yan-
kees among themselves and
turning 'them, once again,' into
pitiless crushers who seemed to
discourage even noncombatants.
(Yankee home attendance-is off
83,000 from last year.)
Already eight-and-a-half
games ahead, the Yankees last
week went at their No. 1 op-
ponent, the Chicago White Sox,
as if their lives depended on
each game. After winning ,the
first, the Yankees were five runs
up in the second when Hank
Bauer lined what looked to 'be
a single to deep left. Al Smith
fielded the ball' languidly, and
Bauer enterprisingly stretched
the hti to two bases.
One out later, Bill Skowron
bounced a grounder through the
left side and again, as Smith
lagged, Yankee hustle trans--
formed another "single" into a
double. Eleven runs ahead, the
Yankees greedily played hit and
run. --Final score: Yankees 13,
White Sox 0.
Mixing hungry younger play-
ers (Tony Ktibek, Jerry Lumpe)
with established stars (McDou-
gald, Mantle, Sisowron), plus
pitching and a laden bench,
Stengel scrubs unzeientingly
against complacency, °YOU
think we're going good," he said
last week, "but what happens if
we lose nine straight, which we
once done, I seen it happen,
where does that put us? They'll
say the players are dissatisfied
because all they read is about
the Dodgers and the Giants in
California and naturally they'd
rather read, about themselves,
and there's something wrong
with a club that has all that
money and should be winning
but it ain't and they'll say the
manager ain't competent." Sten-
gel glared and took , a deep
breath.
Effects: The Yankees had
more homers (52) than anyone
else in the league although, un-
til Mantle's burst, three men
were tied for the club leader-
ship allowed an average of only
2,67 earned runs a game with
five starters (Whity Ford, Bob
Turley, Don Larsen, Johnny
Kucks, and Bobby Shantz)
working regularly.
"You can't let up on this club,"
reported third baseman Andy
Carey, "because there's always
somebody on the bench wait-
ing to take your job," Pitcher
Kucks, asked how he had man-
aged 'to keep bearing down so
hard in a 13-0 victory, explained:
"I keep telling myself the socre
was 0-0. In the ninth when it
looked, easy, I told myself it was
the seventh. It was pschologi-
cal." It was also a two-hit pitch-
ing gem.
The helpless feeling that Yan-
kee teams have so often induced
was well expressed last week
by sports w,riter Red Smith. Af-
tes Chicago shortstop Luis Apa-
ricio, in dodging what looked
like a Yankee beanball, had let
the 'ball carom off his bat, Smith
said: "My Heavens, what a club.
Even their dusters are strikes."
—From NEWSWEEK.
Give Me A Think
Sometime
Is the time coming when
everybody will have the gift of
telepathy—thought transference?
Yes, say some of the world's
scientists-who are now conduct-
ing research into this fascinating
subject.
They foresee the time — cen-
turies hence — when telepathic
gifts will be normal. One scien-
tist. says that mankind might
then dispense largely with lang-
nage, radio, television, telegraph,
communicating instead by direct
transference' thought.
But nearly all investigators
agree that nobody has yet
brought forward absolutely con-
vincing proof that it is possible
for a man to read a thought that
iiies only in the mind of an-
other,
The late Sir Harry Lauder
claimed to be in constant tele-
pathic touch with his brother in
New South Wales. And a Buck-
inghamshire man has claimed
that telephathy on his part actu-
ally captured a murderer.
"A man was wanted for mur-
der," he said. "While I was
standing in the bar of a public
house in the North of England,
something told me that the man
next to me was the criminal. I
at once went to the police and.
described him to the detective
who had charge of the case,
"The detective was sceptical
because the police had only a
vague description of the wanted
man. But later that night the
man I had described was arrest-
ed. He was eventually hanged."
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Q, How can I 'determine what
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A. When dyeing red over yel-
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Q. How can I darn table linen
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Q. How can I preserve the
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Q. How can 1 retain the juices
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U.S. Small Cars
Two of Detroit's Big Three—
GM and Ford—are well along
on their hush-hush projects to
put brand-new, homemade small
(100-inoh wheel base) cars on
the market by the 1960 model
year.
General Motors' Tonawanda,
N,Y., plant is being tooled to
produce the air-cooled, six-
cylinder "pancake" engines that
will be mounted in the rear of
its new line (the trunk space
will be under the hood). The
GM car will be built by the.
Chevrolet division, pdssibly in
the Chevy truck plarlt at Willow
Run (now being modernized but
producing no trucks), but it will
not be simply_ a small-size Chev-
rolet. It will have its own name
plate and styling, and franchises
may be offered to other GM
dealers,
Ford, acting several weeks
after GM, still hopes to get to
the showroom: first. it 18 opti-
mistically Shooting for an intro-
duction date in August 1959, and
a pride of around $1,800. Fiord
has settled on a conventional six--
cylinder engine mounted hi the
front Of its Thunderbird-inspired
model, will probably begin ask-,
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at its Lima, Ohio, plant by the
end of June,
Chrysler Corp., despite rumors
to the Contrary, Will definitely
not 'Mild small car in the
season: It liAs decided the cost
is too great. But report% do have
Chrysler ready to close a deal
to buy or merge with an Engliah
outoinaker (still unidentifiedl
that Would give Chrysler A small
ear to sell both at home atict
abroad.
Meahwhile, the Pretiliauf
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trailers Used to Parry new Para
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of its conviction that a flood
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