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Dates: during 1960-1960
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When Roy Alexander became managing editor in 1949, TIME had a circulation of 1,800,000; now it has just passed the 3,000,000 mark. The new team, said Editor-in-Chief Luce, "takes over at a time when TIME is in fine form. With them in their new posts, we may hope and expect that TIME will do even better...
Atrocity Target. The closeness of the election may keep Ceylon from a long-desired civil peace, for both leading parties are a long way from the 76 seats needed to form a government. But voters had at least decisively rejected the chaos and frequent strikes of Marxist and left-wing government. Most effective campaigner was the United Nationalists' leader, Dudley Shelton Senanayake, 47, who may become prime minister. In 1952 he had briefly succeeded his famous father, Don Stephen Senanayake (Ceylon's first Prime Minister), who died after a fall from a horse. Then the son had gone...
Zeus's thunderbolts are designed to help the U.S. effort (Project Sherwood) to harness the vast thermonuclear energy of the hydrogen bomb in a manageable form. Most promising way to achieve fusion of hydrogen atoms is to squeeze them between enormously powerful magnetic fields, and such fields can only be created by equally powerful currents. When Zeus has passed its last tests, probably some time in June, Project Sherwood's apparatus will be waiting for its thunderbolts. The hope is that they can squeeze hydrogen hard enough to produce a flash of fusion energy...
...bubble of air. An embolus can travel through an artery until it is caught at a narrow point, then shut off circulation to the tissues beyond. But last week two Georgetown University neurosurgeons reported that they had gone to a lot of trouble to make ultramodern emboli in the form of plastic pellets, and had used them to correct a brain defect...
Amis has no notion that science fiction will one day comprise the main stream of literature, as some of its proselytizers seem to think. But he defends it vigorously as a popular art form, and, by way of illustrating its appeal, he cites the case of a science-fiction writer who wandered into a New Orleans bordello and found his work so highly favored by the staff that he was asked to be the guest of the establishment. Better writers may have won the Pulitzer Prize, but few have won this sort of recognition...