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...made and how many shoes sold. At 745 billion rubles (roughly $74.5 billion), it is on the same order as President Eisenhower's $77.1 billion budget, but to be really comparable, the U.S. budget would have to include the spending of U.S. Steel, General Motors, A.T. & T. et al. But if the Russian budget is hard to compare to the U.S.'s, it is nonetheless the biggest in Soviet peacetime history. A single sheet of statistics was handed out to the delegates to study. To judge by it, Soviet citizens may live a bit better...
...worth $42,606) went last week to two professors of the University of California at Berkeley, Emilio Segre, 54, and Owen Chamberlain, 39. In 1955 they headed a team that found the long-sought antiprotons, key particles of the stranger-than-fiction world of antimatter (TIME, Oct. 31, 1955 et seq.). Antiprotons, which the Segre-Chamberlain team identified in a beam of subatomic debris created by Berkeley's 6.2-billion-volt bevatron, have the mass of ordinary protons but carry negative electric charges instead of positive charges. When a proton hits an antiproton, they annihilate each other, both turning...
...crayon rouge et un stylo noir." (Pause...
Each year, the senior tutors' offices, Mr. Crooks' Dunster Street auctioneers, and a scattered army of pre-professional counselors (resident House pre-medical advisors et. al.) do a fine job of placing, selling, and guiding the bulk of the senior class. But prospective graduate students in the arts with no foreign fellowship ambitions get little in the way of guidance gladhanding. It is difficult, in the context of the College's present placement system, to find someone who can answer a question like "to which schools do I apply if I want to study the history and culture of modern...
...months, a smoke screen of evasion, misstatement and carefully calculated confusion had been thrown over the case of four U.S. sergeants on trial in Turkey for black-market dealings in currency (TIME, Aug. 24 et seq.). Last week despite officialdom's best efforts, the smoke screen began to lift...