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...London. Ont. Canadian Physicist Austin D. Misener told a U.N. youth seminar: there are two kinds of forces in the modern world−those that divide people and those that unite them. Science, he said, unites: the churches divide. He was not speaking of Christianity, he added "but of the way churches operate, tending to separate nations, people and races...
Tektites are bits of semitransparent glassy stuff, mostly black or dark green, found in many parts of the world. They cannot be explained as earthly minerals, so most scientists who have studied them believe that they come from space. In The Scientific Monthly, Physicist Ralph Stair of the National Bureau of Standards tells how he thinks they were formed and how they got scattered so widely...
...Boston, one of the most publicized cases that grew out of Joe McCarthy's career as wild-swinging slayer of subversive dragons came to an end. Because of insufficient evidence, the Government announced that it was dropping the prosecution of Harvard Physicist Wendell Furry, charged with contempt for refusing to answer the Senator's questions. ¶Gift of the week: from John D. Rockefeller Jr., $1,000,000 to Dartmouth College for Dartmouth's new social and creative arts center (TIME, Feb. 20). ¶Resignation of the week: Samuel Brownell, brother of U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell...
...University of North Carolina, onetime (1949-50) Secretary of the Army and special assistant to Harry Truman on foreign aid (the "Gray Report"), first director of the U.S. Government's Psychological Strategy Board, head of the special security board of the AEC that barred Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer from access to the nation's top atom secrets, publisher; and Mrs. Nancy Maguire Beebe, 31; both for the second time; in Washington...
Tricky Balance. Leakproof magnetic bottles, Physicist Teller pointed out, are not easy to construct. The magnetism must be just strong enough to confine the ionized gases at the right density and temperature, and keep them confined long enough for a reaction to take place. The reaction would release energy and raise the temperature, so the magnetic field must grow stronger when necessary to keep things in balance. Power must be drawn out of the system without disturbing its tricky balance...