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This turned out to be a break for physicists in general because the new cyclotron filled a gap in their tool-chest. Cyclotrons are used to bombard target material with particles traveling at different rates of speed. To get a whole range of speeds, physicists need several cyclotrons of different power. Before the new Harvard cyclotron appeared, there was only one very powerful mode--the 400,000,000 volt job owned by the University of California--and quite a few smaller ones of not much more than 30,000 volts. The Harvard cyclotron helped to provide the much wanted middle...
...build the arms. Reason: NPA had failed to provide priorities on materials for machine tools. And though machine tools have little bearing on consumer costs, OPS had thrown the industry out of joint by foolishly slapping on price controls. The controls themselves, ignoring the industry's long gap between orders and delivery, in some cases set ceilings on the basis of orders taken as long as three years...
...onetime president of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America and a top Protestant layman, Ohio's Charles P. Taft has long believed that Protestants should find a way to fill a major gap in the public-school curriculum. Last week Lawyer Taft (brother of the Senate's Mr. Republican) made his point before a meeting of the Warren (Ohio) Citizens Commission for the Public Schools...
...Many of these men have religious problems from time to time, which they bring to the Dean's office or the Hygiene Department. The Deans and the College psychiatrists cannot cope with these problems, which they could then refer to the Chaplain. Hence a chaplain would fill a tremendous gap...
...Gap. The Russians still had one major gap in their knowledge: they did not know how to make plutonium. That gap, the committee suggested, was filled by Bruno Pontecorvo, the Italian-born British physicist who quietly took his wife and three children on a trip to Finland last fall, then vanished behind the Iron Curtain. Pontecorvo was an expert on nuclear reactors, the devices which are needed to make plutonium...