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...physicists have proposed that part of the accelerator be converted into a vast apparatus for high-energy physics--the most powerful equipment of its kind in the world. A successful high-energy laboratory, they believe, could make Harvard M.I.T. the most important physics research center in the country...
...Atomic Energy Commission is now studying the CEA request for $1 million to build the apparatus. Because this is less than one-tenth the cost of earlier plans submitted by the CEA--and by other laboratories--the commission is believed likely to accept...
...with this apparatus, we may be able to produce enough energy to see, for example, whether an electron is really a point, as the theory assumes. And we may find instead that it has structure, that it has a radius...
...thing in London"). Fu's evil daughter (Tsai Chin) seizes the professor's daughter as hostage and undertakes the dirty deeds formerly assigned to such exotics as Anna May Wong and Myrna Loy. There are vestiges of the old potency in the farfetched fights, a sinister drowning apparatus in a hideout below the Thames, the mass destruction of a peaceful English village. The indestructible Fu finally goes up in flames in a Himalayan monastery, taking the High Lama with him and still muttering darkly: "The world shall hear from me again." That news is unlikely to thrill...
...apparatus now known as the Central Intelligence Agency had a Revolutionary War ancestor called the Culper Ring. America's first espionage agents-a whaler, a tavern keeper, a Quaker merchant, Schoolmaster Nathan Hale-were very ingenuous spies. The members referred to each other by numbers, wrote their messages to General Washington in disappearing ink called Sympathetic Stain, and were totally hangdog about their calling. "I've lived four years of my life in fear," one of them is supposed to have said, "and I'll live the rest of it in shame." Author Corey Ford...