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RECREATIONAL AREA, BIKINI. Dr. Marshall G. 

 Holloway and Dr. Ernest W. Titterton, well known 

 nuclear physicists, experiment with fast ping pong 

 particles on Bikini Island. In the background are 

 tennis, horseshoe and volley-ball courts, and dress- 

 ing tents. Dr. Holloway headed the Los Alamos 

 Laboratory group at Bikini, was charged with the 

 heavy responsibility of preparing the two atomic 

 bombs used in the tests. Dr. Titterton, one of Dr. 

 Holloway's principal assistants, was concerned with 

 time signals. OPPOSITE. ABOVE. Coral head in 

 shallow water, showing the boulder-like shape ta- 

 ken by these heavy masses. Blocks of coral like 

 this one, found as far as 400 feet from the reef 

 edge, are torn from the margin of the reef by 

 storm waves and deposited on the reef flat. The 

 one shown, found 100 feet from the reef edge 

 on Erik Island, was 25 feet in diameter and 12 

 feet high. The coral formation of the Bikini Atoll, 

 as shown here and in other photographs in this 

 collection, was of great scientific interest. Seismic 

 surveys made by methods used in prospecting for 

 oi! revealed that the coral cap forming the Bikini 

 Atoll is thousands of feet thick. BELOW. The pause 

 that refreshes, Enyu Island. 



