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...Physicist Hofstadter did turn up some fundamental knowledge about the neutron that could only please his audience: the radius of the neutron is about 7 X 10 -14 centimeters, or roughly one 40,000,000,000,000th of an inch. Cried Columbia's Nobel Prizewinner Dr. I. I. Rabi: "Hofstadter has found the size of the primary building block of ourselves and our environment, the primordial particle. It is a finding of immense interest, importance, and even beauty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Primordial Particle | 12/30/1957 | See Source »

...DIFFERENT-EXCITING-INSPIRING" is a rhodium-finish Crucifix Prayer Book, an inch and a half long and sparkling with handset imported rhinestones. "Contains Hidden Holy Prayer! Look thru center stone . . . see tiny child praying . . . read beautiful Lord's Prayer!" This $9.95 value is now only $2.98, and, in addition, purchasers may "wear amazing Crucifix Prayer Book for 10 Days at Our Risk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Holy Hucksters | 12/23/1957 | See Source »

This theoretical win over St. Lawrence could be easy if: (1) the first line can connect with goals instead of two-inch misses, (2) the defense does not let up at any moment during the game, (3) goalie Tab Cleary can remain as cool but be more cautious, and (4) the whole team can maintain the same pace it did last night. In this case, no luck will be needed...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: Sextet Scores 2-1 Clarkson Win | 12/18/1957 | See Source »

...pound Vanguard contains a six-inch satellite with a radio voice which the Navy hopes to put into orbit at a speed of 18,000 miles an hour...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Navy's Vanguard Rocket Ready To Fire First American 'Moon'; Defense, Aid Budgets Expanded | 12/4/1957 | See Source »

...damage them. The four beams came to a sharp focus at the exact part of the ansa lenticularis on the left side (controlling right-side movements) that Dr. Meyers wanted to destroy. The ultrasound dose lasted only 1.8 seconds. The patient was moved twice, a minute fraction of an inch, so that two more pinhead-size parts of the ansa lenticularis were destroyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Ultrasound Surgery | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

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