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Presumably, however, the Crimson will slip past Williams with an undefeated record intact. The varsity will at that point have but one match left, against Yale. This contest will be a thriller; regrettably, it is to be played in New Haven...
Melodious Schmalz. Kreisler's technique was sometimes shaky (he had an occasional tendency to slip off key), but the tone was always glowing, the rhythms dynamic, the conceptions full of grandeur. A cultivated man who spoke eight languages and had a scholar's grasp of history, philosophy and mathematics, he brought to every performance a warmth and simplicity that spoke straight through the mind to the heart...
...club, in serious financial trouble a year ago, anticipates that this year it will at best break even. The three-year-old American Express plan has yet to show a profit. Diners' Club, the granddaddy of the card clubs, watched profits from business with 1,200,000 cardholders slip 21% during the first half of the current fiscal year, under the pressure of increased competition and the recession. Disenchanted, after twelve years of catering exclusively to the credit demands of wining, dining and traveling Americans, Diners' Club last year bought an industrial finance company, is eying other credit...
...billion electron volts) synchrotron, world's largest atom smasher. If the physicists' calculations are correct, when the synchrotron goes into operation one of its products will be a vast number of neutrinos, snippets of energy powerful enough to penetrate the shielding and slip into the chamber, where they may be spotted by means of spark trails. Scientists expect to decipher the trails and learn some of the deepest secrets of the universe (see below...
Throughout the week a small army of engineers, painters, technicians and nuclear physicists worked on the sleek, white-hulled ship lying in her slip at Camden, N.J. Early next month the N.S. (for nuclear ship) Savannah* the world's first atomic-powered merchant ship, will go to Yorktown, Va., for dockside tests, then head out into the Atlantic for sea trials. Said Dr. Marvin M. Mann, project manager of the ship's nuclear power plant: "For all practical purposes, the Savannah is completed...