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...platter. A Ph.D. (Yale, 1925), he spent his early career studying the phenomenon of ionization, began working on the cyclotron as early as 1930. He first demonstrated it that year with a crude but scientifically overwhelming do-it-yourself kit: a kitchen chair, clothes tree, toy-sized four-inch magnet, pie-sized vacuum chamber made of window glass, brass and sealing wax. Nobel Prizewinner (1939) Lawrence is a humorous, vigorous man who steams around his labs with-as nucleonics folk term it-all rods in. He plays tennis, fiddles with television (he invented a color TV tube in his garage...
...plumed, white-breasted stilt plover, a breed seldom seen in Italy, which migrates each fall from Arctic Siberia to North Africa. On the bird's right leg Lamia found a glass vial containing a message, written in Italian with scrawled capital letters on both sides of an eight-inch strip of paper. On orders of the Ministry of the Interior, the paper was painstakingly analyzed, determined to be of Russian manufacture. The message: "Many messages but no hope. For 13 years we have been working as slaves in mines. These men have slit eyes. One dies like...
Sputnik II will pass over Boston at 12:56 Saturday afternoon. Hynek said, however, that football spectators should not attempt to spot the rocket with the naked eye, but that the Institute will try with a five-inch telescope...
...difference in weight, he explained, was probably due to the shape and size of the rocket, compared to a sphere with a 23-inch diameter. He added that the weight of the instruments and the dog in the forward section of the cylinder might also total more than the mass of the first satellite...
...head of the Institute of Industrial Relations. He quickly became one of the state's top labor arbiters, held a long string of Government posts. During the university's bitter battle over the loyalty oath (TIME, June 27, 1949 et seq.), he proved himself every inch the mediator. As a member of the faculty committee on privilege and tenure, he was largely responsible for protecting facultymen from unfair persecution and dismissal, but he went about his job in so levelheaded a manner that he was able to placate even the most diehard conservatives on the board...