Word: alpha
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...means sure that the U.S. government--particularly the CIA--is not deeply involved with this community. Last August in Havana, the Cuban government produced 10 men--alleged CIA agents--at two press conferences for foreign journalists. They were selfadmitted members of exile organizations such as Alpha 66, and said they had been paid by the American government to carry out operations against the revolutionary regime. Extremely sophisticated radio transmission equipment was captured with the commandos. One group had brought a pistol and silencer with bullets dipped in potassium cyanide. The CIA's involvement with Cuban exiles may only extend...
Scientists can now turn their attention to solving another radiation-belt enigma: although one out of 20 particles in the solar wind is a positively charged helium nucleus, or alpha particle, only three can be found for every 10,000 particles in the outer belt. "For some reason," says Van Allen, "the process that pulls electrons and protons into the magnetic field seems to discriminate against alpha particles. We hope to find...
Exterminate or Prostitute? College Negroes nonetheless feel schizophrenic about their climb out of the ghettos into the white world. Somewhat bitterly, a member of Northwestern's new Kappa Alpha Psi Negro fraternity concedes that his goals are "pretty honkie-oriented-the corporation game, suburbia, upper middle-the works." At Wisconsin, Junior Clarence Brown takes a calmer view. "To better yourself is the first thing," he says. "Then you may be able to help others some day." But Graduate Student Brown McGhee scoffs: "Let me tell you how it is, baby. When I get out, I have two choices...
...most plentiful substance identified by Surveyor's alpha particle "jewel box" (TIME, Sept. 22) is virtually the same as the basaltic rock that forms the ocean floors and is found in such widely scattered locations as the Hudson River Palisades, the Brazilian Plateau, the Hawaiian Islands and India. Like its counterpart on earth, the lunar material consists largely of oxygen (58%) and silicon (18.5%). It also contains aluminum (6.5%), iron-nickel (5.5%), magnesium (3%), and smatterings of carbon...
Surveyor's findings are admittedly based on tiny samples. The spacecraft's alpha-particle analyzer covered only two 4-sq.-in. areas and probed them to a depth of only 1/1,000th of an inch. And it is conceivable that the lunar highland regions have a chemical composition different from that in the Sea of Tranquillity, where Surveyor landed. But scientists believe that Surveyor's findings are typical of the makeup of the other lunar seas, or basins...