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...craneman for 27 years. His specialty is battering buildings apart with a 2,800-lb. steel ball. The ball swings from a cable at the end of a 100-ft. boom, and Big Jim, by deftly whirling his crane cab and boom, can send the ball crashing into a target with bull's-eye accuracy. Many a major Eastern wrecking project has had an Allit touch...
...circular chamber. It slammed through a foot of lead, losing only half its strength. The physicists found that the beam was made up of high energy neutrons (nuclear particles with no electric charge). The neutrons were debris left over when speeding deuterons (nuclei of heavy hydrogen) hit a target inside the cyclotron...
...usual opportunities for scattered oaths and point-bank shots at a stationary target will be taken from mis-seated undergraduates when the Council ticket committee passes out its announced poll tomorrow night. By what seems to be a friendly agreement between the Harvard Athletic Association and the student body's representatives, the results of the balloting will determine next year's tickets--all of which gives the voter the responsibility to stop howling and think...
When the Student Council ticket committee, keeping an eye on the always-touchy problem, advised Mr. Bingham that it would be fairer to the majority to enforce the rule, he complied with the request. One incident in the stands--and Mr. Bingham was the target of half-humorous, half-serious accusatory darts. The fact is that it was the system, and not the enforcement, which drew the darts; and to be justified, those complaints should have been made a month or more ago. Once a system has earned tacit approval by lack of opposition, the fairest thing is to carry...
...such self-propelled, pilotless aerial weapons, and it is reported that particularly satisfactory results have been obtained at an experimental station in Siberia near the Kamchatka peninsula. Over distances of 900 and 1,300 miles, they can now concentrate their aim within three to six miles of the target...