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    "ocrText": "174.\nTeller: Just before the test he was taking even-money bets from the scientists\naround him on what the yield would be. \"Teller was diabolically clever\". He\ngave each better even money if the bettor guessed a yield that was within a\nVI\nfactor of 2 (either 1/01 the yield or twice that number) of the actual yield.\nBecause most of the scientists were betting low (from 1 to 6 kilotons), few\nwon any bets from Teller. They automatically limited their range in betting\non a low yield.\nFriday, July 13: M describes the emotion of the last colloquium Oppie held\nVI\nin the old Army theatre before the test. Oppie & Bethe both spoke at this\nfinal briefing at LASL. / M also recals that the thunder & lightning of\nthe final nite on July 15 made a dramatic setting for the catastrophic\neven that followed. \"I was conscious of the fact that from that moment on,\nVI\nthings would be reckoned from this event.\"\n(end)\nFuchs: \"He was extremely hardworking. He'd come in early in the morning each\nday. He had a keen sense of humor, though it was more the passive kind. He\nalways grasped the point of a joke before anyone else, / He and Richard\nFeynman competed in babysitting prowess. F alwasy insisted on having an\nF\nEncyclopedia Brittanica in any house where he babysat. Otto Frisch played\nthe piano. F loved to hike. F constantly babysat for his great friends the\nIV\npeierls. Mrs. Peierls liked to organize hikes or \"marches\" for F & friends.\nAt 1 point, F took Peirls' place and gave a series of lectures on hydrodynamics\nwhich Anderson called \"the most brilliant series of lectures I've ever heard\".\nAnother observer whorwatched F lecture described his platform manner: precise,\nneat, beautifully logical. F had \"neat and small regular writing\" on the black-\nboard. / At LASL, F was on British end of the US*British Declassification Board.\nA colleague recalls, F \"was one of the more tenacious men in trying to get\nthings declassified. At TR shot, Metrplolis recalls seeing F at Campanea\nHills. F watching shot. There were about 75 other scientists there; 3 busses;\nand MPs all around. Everyone was trying to calculate what yield would be. But\nFuchs?\nHARRY HARRY TRUMAN LIDRARY\nCOVERNMENT"
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