Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Hidden Feud. With a novelist's relish, Insider Snow then described one of the unknown battles of wartime Britain: the feud between Sir Henry Tizard (rhymes with lizard), "the best scientific mind that in England has ever applied itself to war," and German-raised F. A. Lindemann (later Lord Cherwell), right-hand science adviser to Winston Churchill. As Snow tells it, the fate of England all but hung on the enmity between these two strong...
Most of the pro scouts agreed that 1960's linemen were, on the whole, more promising than the backs. Some headlined college stars were shrugged off as lacking the overpowering speed, size or strength to stick with the pros. When the N.F.L. player draft is held later this month, each of the 14 league teams will key its choices to its special needs-a sprinting pass-catcher, a massive defensive tackle. But with impressive unanimity, the N.F.L. scouts agreed on a dream squad of the nation's finest pro prospects. TIME'S pro-picked All-America...
...theory that charged particles released by the blasts would be trapped in the earth's magnetic field like the sun-borne particles of the Van Allen radiation belt (TIME, March 30, 1959). The experiment worked fine, but when the New York Times finally broke the story six months later, U.S. authorities were disturbed at the "breach of security" involved. And even after most details of Project Argus became public knowledge, the exact times of the blasts were never announced-apparently because Washington officialdom hoped the Russians could not get this information by themselves...
...quite a year later, staring down the barrel of a microscope, Feynman saw magnified 40 times a turntable motor that easily met his specifications. Devised by William H. McLellan, a 35-year-old engineer for a Pasadena research firm, the motor was fifteen thousandths of an inch square (smaller than a pencil dot), weighed 250 micrograms, and was powered by one thousandth of a watt. Working for two months in his spare time, Caltech Graduate McLellan used sharpened toothpicks, a watchmaker's lathe and a micro-drill press to fashion his flyspeck engine, which operates on the same "synchronous...
...Arthur Stebbins, nephew of 20th Century-Fox's former Board Chairman Joe Schenck, talked Mack Sennett into taking a $500,000 policy on cross-eyed Ben Turpin to protect Sennett if Turpin's eyes should decide to go straight. Self-proclaimed originator of "the scarface policy," Stebbins later arranged insurance for Eddie Cantor's eyes, Jimmy Durante's nose, Marlene Dietrich's legs. Of course, the real purpose was publicity, and for sheer newsworthiness no policy before or since has been able to touch the masterpiece Lloyd's once wrote to cover bosomy Evelyn...