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Just my world of dreams, music and thoughts. Author of two books, one a novel of Love stories set in Framingham, Mass, Secrets of the Heart the 2nd book an autobiography of growing up in Framingham, Mass. Small Town America, Framingham My generation was the first teenage generation, that was when the word was coined. Ours was the generation that started cruising through town and to the drive in theater and drive in restaurant. In our area, Ernie Kampersal,from Holliston, drove his bucking car through town, picking up girls. It rose in the air, like a stallion! We went to the soda shops and played the juke boxes. It was a different town, a different time, and it belonged to us!

Sunday, July 6, 2014

The Girls of Atomic City, my newest read...quote about dictators

Laura, the wife of Enrico Fermi was Jewish, they joined the exodus and eventually wound up in the United States with the International team of scientists that were to work on the Atomic bomb.  From the book , page 79, "These scientists-Hungarians , Italians, Germans-knew the power and speed with which a dictatorial state could mobilize ,Universities, Military Research.  Back in their war-ravaged homelands, these entities, each with their own expertise and power, were under a single direction, guided and controlled by one hand."

"A dictator decrees,"  she later wrote, "a president asks Congress for permission to organize."


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