Remembering the day the first controlled chain reaction sparked
On December six 1942 scientists in a makeshift lab under Stagg Field at the University of Chicago triggered the first controlled atomic chain reaction. The development led toward the first nuclear bomb bound for Hiroshima and altered world history while highlighting figures like Einstein and Meitner who fled to the United States.
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Pearl Harbor
Stagg Field
University of Chicago
Hiroshima
Berlin-Tokyo
Vannevar Bush
Office of Scientific Research and Development
White House
Hitler
Einstein
Lisa Meitner
United States
Letters on sportsmanship and a real Christmas tree divide readers
Readers critique local sports outcomes and celebrate Coach Barr while denouncing a perceived loss of sportsmanship. Another letter laments Winchester's plastic Christmas tree, calling for a real tree and noting vandalism and theft of lights. Cadette Troop members are listed at the end.
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the Star
Court House
Major Industries Sick in U S A Says Henry J Taylor
Henry J Taylor surveys U S industry showing steel, rail, airline, airframe, shipping and mining sectors as fundamentally sick beyond recession. He warns that weak profits, high costs and foreign competition threaten America's world power position and defense industries.
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U.S
Japan
U S. Steel
Banks
Federal Reserve
Free World
Lockheed
America
Seven Seas
Time, Inc
United States
Chrysler
General Electric
Physical fitness and leadership in a weakened nation
The piece argues that physical fitness underpins mental strength and national leadership. It notes a rise in schools offering fitness programs yet many still lack basics, signaling a deteriorating youth health. Approval for military service remains hindered by poor physical condition among young men.
Winchester Civil War Round Table names new chairman
The Star Files reports Harry Dunn named chairman of the Winchester Civil War Round Table at the December meeting, succeeding Carlton Staples.
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Harry Dunn
Winchester
Carlton Staples
Carolyn Renner
Connie I. Renner
Gamma Iota
Sigma Alpha Iota
Winchester Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To
Keep growing in daily meditation
Daily meditation urges ongoing growth in body and mind. It warns against closing the mind and insists that true greatness comes from continual learning and purpose beyond age.
Memory Lane Echoes From A Simpler America
HAL BOYLE reflects on bygone times memory as a guide to today recalling Bob Hope in vaudeville days, candlelit Christmas trees, Rural life via magazines and catalogs, the FBI's focus, shoe breaking for rich relatives, local fame from a toupee, blinds signaling wealth, calories in neckties, lawn care by neighborhood handyman, kids earning ice cream money selling scrap metal, bathroom door battles, cocktail party stigma, and unplanned obsolescence.
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New York
Bob Hope
Saturday Evening Post
FBI
Diverticula and diverticulitis Do Not Lead to Cancer
Expert explains diverticula commonly occur in the colon and sometimes the small intestine. Most cause no serious problems though five to ten percent over forty have diverticula with left-sided pain when inflamed. Treatment ranges from antibiotics and IV fluids to surgery for rupture or abscess. Diet and bowel training reduce spasm and constipation. use of bulk laxatives may help while avoiding irritants and other laxatives.
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Dr. Lamb
How to Score Memory Quiz Answers Page 2
A quiz based guide lists 10 current questions about world cars insect legends voting documents capitals and famous names. It asks about world car shares a death caused by a bird a stockholder voting deed a Nebraska capital a Lochinvar line a hymn of hate a burial site Mohammed eight score and famous frontiersmen.
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U.S
Nebraska
Hastings
Lincoln
Omaha
Lochinvar
West
Mohammed
Davy
Daniel
Kit
Man of Destiny
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Handley
Barr
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Peyton St. P.S
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Leslie Kinne
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Pamela Finley
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Pam S. Russell
J.S. Boulter
Katie Sheehan
Eileen Johnson
Henry J. Taylor
Porterhouse
J. M. Casey
Boyce
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Lester D. Arnold, Jr
India
V.P.I
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Hal Boyle
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