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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, 0 reitke4i6Wee 41tiffilti ban 'td le Of giving"Ct Mali the 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. 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