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...frail that it decayed almost before anyone recognized that it was around. It was manufactured, explained a lab team (Albert Ghiorso, Torbjorn Sikkeland, Almon E. Larsh and Robert M. Latimer), by coating thin nickel foil with a circular film of artificial californium (element 98) only one-tenth of an inch in diameter. Placed in a container filled with helium gas, this tiny target was bombarded by a beam of boron nuclei from the lab's heavy-ion linear accelerator. Most of the boron bullets missed, but a few scored a bull's-eye on californium nuclei. Atoms formed...
Becket. Sir Laurence Olivier is every inch Henry II, having switched from the title role he played on Broadway-to Anouilh's and everyone's advantage. Toronto until April 29, Philadelphia...
...serpents is pretty snaky. Rival males get all intertwined in a knot. "Nobody knows how the winner wins, or why," but the suitors are good sports-they never bite each other. The snake with the deadliest bite is the Gaboon viper, a hideous flat-headed creature whose two-inch fangs can bring agonizing death in three seconds...
Captain Fiske Warren, at the number one position, John Livingood, playing at number four, and Herb Wollan, number five, contributed the only Crimson wins against the Jeffs. Bruce Johnstone played his Amherst opponent even for 18 holes and then lost on the 19th when he missed an 18-inch putt...
...rugby club's first fifteen won its game with Cornell Saturday by default; the Big Red stayed in Ithaca, snowbound by the five-inch downfall Friday night. At the Hamilton High School grounds, the Crimson's second fifteen got clobbered by the Dartmouth second fifteen...