Basking in the warm afterglow of the First International Conference on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy and its eager exchange of atomic information, more than 100 scientists from 32 nations stopped on the way home to tour Britain's atomic-research center at Harwell, where they were "shown as much as possible within the bounds of security." Among the visitors to the center: 15 Soviet physicists.
A North American F-100C Super-Sabre, piloted by Air Force Colonel Horace A. Hanes. ripped over a straightaway course near Palmdale. Calif, to set the world's first supersonic speed...
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