"I was thinking this globe enough till there sprang out so noiseless around me myriads of other globes." Walt Whitman
At 1:35 p.m. one day last week the doors of the old White House conference room swung open and 50 reporters walked in, some grabbing chairs, the others lining up against the walls. At a great oval table before them sat Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty, his spectacles glinting in the bright light, surrounded by five unfamiliar-looking men, whom he introduced as distinguished scientists. They were calm, poised, at ease; a few of the reporters licked their pencils nervously...
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