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Alumnae came all the way from Mercer Island, Wash., and La Jolla, Cal., to attend the sixth biennial Radcliffe College Alumnae Council. Over 100 of the remaining delegates were from Massachusetts...
...rendition of Born to Be Blue is the best since the late Mildred Bailey made it her own. While the California Suite is billed as Torme's "major composition" on this album, it is memorable chiefly as the sort of thing in which Lyricist Torme rhymes La Jolla with "annoy you." But the songs -wistful, full of tender despair-make Side 2 worth the price...
Died. Leo Szilard, 66, famed physicist, who with Enrico Fermi in 1942 triggered the world's first nuclear chain reaction and thus made possible the atomic bomb; of a heart attack; in La Jolla, Calif. A Hungarian-Jewish refugee from Hitler's persecutions, Szilard foresaw as early as 1939 the possibility of uranium bombs, persuaded Einstein to lend his famous name to a letter to President Roosevelt in which he pointed out the danger that Germany might beat the U.S. to such a weapon; once his advice was heeded and the bomb developed, Szilard looked with regret upon...
...their elegant laboratories near La Jolla, Calif., General Dynamics scientists are doggedly attacking a difficult problem: how to extract controlled power from hydrogen fusion. The pay off for their work is hidden in the future, but the powerful magnetic fields they have built to hold reacting hydrogen gas at 100 million degrees has already yielded a valuable practical "fallout." Those same magnetic forces used on a smaller scale have proved remarkably versatile for shaping metal...
...Jolla, Calif...