The Italian Navigator Lands
The chain reaction took place precisely as Fermi had surmised. After
twenty-eight minutes he curtailed the experiment, giving a signal to
replace the final control rod. The normally reserved scientists, 
unable repress their excitement, let out a tremendous cheer and gathered
around Fermi to shake his hand. Although it was the time to celebrate,
some of the men remarked soberly that "The world would not be the same 
again". On December 2, 1942, the news of Fermi's achievement was relayed
in a cryptic telephone message:
"The Italian navigator has reached the new world."
"How did he find the natives?"
"very friendly."
The atomic age was inchoate--but truly here.

to keep the pot boiling--Dickens kept the pot boiling by ending each 
chapter on a note of an uncertainty and suspense.
(to see that interest doesn't die down)