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...Life. Government files contain reports on the miseries of Lota-its mine galleries reaching out under the sea, its underhoused town, its undernourished children. One of the reports says that no Chilean family can subsist on less than 65 pesos ($2.60) daily. But 33-year-old Juan Soto, a typical miner, who has dug Lota's coal for 16 years, gets 30 pesos for an eight-hour day's work. Neither he nor his wife and three small children remember having ever bought cheese or fruit, but they do get some milk...
...room, on the second floor of Langdell Hall, will be air-conditioned and humidity-controlled to prevent deterioration of the valuable documents it will contain, several of which date back...
Next year's Freshmen will be the first since 1941 to have a Register. The book will, as before the war, contain pictures of the Class of 1952 and brief biographies...
...Dirac theory predicts, among many other things, that hydrogen atoms can exist in two different "states"-one stable, the other unstable-which contain the same amount of energy. Lamb & Retherford checked up with ultrashort radio waves (war-developed for radar), and found that this prediction was not correct...
...encountered Steep Rock Iron Mines, Ltd. Steep Rock looked like the kind of big business that Eaton likes. In Ontario, some 70 miles north of the famed Mesabi range, Steep Rock owned fabulously rich iron ore lands with proven reserves of 30 million tons; geophysicists estimated that they might contain as much as 500 million tons, half as rich as Mesabi. The trouble was that the ore lay under Steep Rock Lake and 150 feet of water. Eaton bought control of Steep Rock for an initial cash outlay of only $20,000, and started his big planning...