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This turned out to be a break for physicists in general because the new cyclotron filled a gap in their tool-chest. Cyclotrons are used to bombard target material with particles traveling at different rates of speed. To get a whole range of speeds, physicists need several cyclotrons of different power. Before the new Harvard cyclotron appeared, there was only one very powerful mode--the 400,000,000 volt job owned by the University of California--and quite a few smaller ones of not much more than 30,000 volts. The Harvard cyclotron helped to provide the much wanted middle...
Sprung Trap. Some of Wiley's fellow Republicans privately accused him of blundering; he had, they told favored newsmen, triggered a trap which they had set for Secretary of State Dean Acheson. The plan had been to make unpopular Dean Acheson the chief G.O.P. target, ask him pointed questions about his discussions with the President, then try to cite him for contempt if he refused to answer. Even if they couldn't make the charge stick, Republicans hoped to keep the case in the courts and before the public until...
...telescopes to pick up certain stars. Photosensitive tubes note the position of the stars. This information, processed by a complicated electronic brain, tells the missile the course it is following over the surface of the earth. It corrects its own course if necessary; it knows when it reaches the target and when to explode its bomb...
Though meat controls were the cattlemen's main target, the Administration feared that the meatmen were linked up with the potent cotton bloc to blast the entire price control program, now up for renewal by Congress. One cattleman admitted that "our aim is to kill all price controls...
Electrons in the Raw. Meanwhile, the doctors are trying something new with the betatron. Previously they used it in a roundabout way-shooting a stream of electrons against a platinum target, which produced X rays, and then aiming the X rays into the patient's cancer. The new technique is to use the electrons in the raw. The advantage: whereas an X-ray beam keeps going after it has passed through cancerous tissue, and may cause "exit burns" where it leaves the body, the electron beam can be focused to hit the cancer site and then dissipate itself...