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Providence, R.I.-- The focus here Saturday was on Brown Stadium. The cameras, cheerleaders, Bud Wilkinson, the entire city were all waiting for the Ivy football title, for the devastating victory over Harvard that never happened...
Saturday marks the third time in as many years that the Harvard-Brown football contest has been selected by ABC for its regional broadcast. The network will send its first team to Providence, Keith Jackson, Bill Fleming, Bud Wilkinson and Jim Lampley...
...hottest-selling armor since Wilkinson Sword turned out chain-mail flak suits for airmen in World War II is made, improbably enough, from a finespun synthetic fiber called Kevlar. Developed by Du Pont and used primarily as a substitute for steel in belted radial tires, the fabric-lighter than nylon and tougher than steel-has been fashioned into everything from sports jackets to undervests and worn by everyone who might come under the gun, from cops to Presidents. While even the thickest Kevlar garments will not stop most rifle bullets, the material nonetheless provides formidable protection. The 23-layer version...
...prize in chemistry went to Ernst Otto Fischer, 54, of Munich's Technical University and Geoffrey Wilkinson, 52, of London University's Imperial College of Science and Technology. Working independently, the two men explored organometallic compounds, a marriage of hydrocarbon compounds with metals like iron and chromium. Although such unusual combinations had long been known, it was Fischer and Wilkinson who first identified and explained the structure of a special class of organometallics, called sandwich compounds, that seemed to defy all known chemical rules. In these compounds, Fischer and Wilkinson found, the hydrocarbon molecules hold the metal atom...
...group of catalysts-substances that stimulate or retard chemical reactions in which they themselves remain unaltered-used in the production of new supertough plastics, the drug L-dopa (for treating Parkinson's disease), low-lead fuels and other materials of industrial importance. The prize is especially gratifying to Wilkinson, who did most of his research while he was a junior faculty member at Harvard from 1950 to 1954. Because his senior colleagues were apparently unimpressed by his results, his contract was not renewed. "I was fired," recalls Wilkinson, who then returned to England and continued his Nobel work...