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...businessmen, a blackboard is something they once scribbled on, long, long ago in school. But for one U.S. industry, the old blackboard is as necessary as slide rules and secretaries. The industry is electronics, currently the fastest-growing major U.S. industry ($11.5 billion this year), whose brainy young scientist-businessmen sit in air-conditioned offices sipping coffee and chalking abstruse formulas. One of the fruits of their doodles-a new family of miniaturized electronic components to do much of the work of standard vacuum tubes-so fascinated Business Researcher Claudine Tillier and Picture Researcher Christina Pappas, who worked on this...
...Soviet tests (which one Japanese scientist declares to be more than twice as "dirty" as U.S. H-bomb explosions) temporarily focused Japanese wrath on Russia rather than Britain. The fallout, increased by a week-long drizzle of rain, was the heaviest ever recorded in Japan, and the government broadcast a warning: "Cover all open wells; do not drink rain water...
...foreign nations. Though no moneymaker, it has as impressive a board of advisers as any corporation going-former Senator William Benton, Economist Beardsley Ruml, onetime Assistant Secretary of Defense Anna M. Rosenberg, Psychologist George Stoddard, President Robert Hutchins of the Fund for the Republic, and Social Scientist Ralph Tyler. Last week it was sporting another big name: Chairman-elect Adlai E. Stevenson...
...limited in our description of any phenomenon by our very civilization, by tradition, and by words which are conditional and limited, J. Robert Oppenheimer '26 told a Sanders Theatre audience yesterday in the fourth talk of a series entitled "The Hope of Order." The atomic scientist said that we must continually search for descriptions which encompass and transcend the descriptions of the past...
Like Whitten, newsmen from other Dallas radio and TV stations helped make last week's devastating storm what one scientist called "the best-documented tornado in history." As the whirling funnel gouged a path through the city from southeast to northwest, killing ten, injuring 200 and causing a $4,000,000 loss in smashed homes and businesses, radiomen tracked it closely in swift mobile units. Since the twister rarely moved faster than 20 m.p.h., they often sped in front of it, frequently beat police and disaster units to scenes of havoc. They gave thousands of homeward-bound motorists accurate...