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Last week, 25 years later, the 1,000th paper (the Portsmouth, N.H. Herald) was taking James Robert Williams'* Out Our Way. His homely handiwork was the biggest drawing card on N.E.A.'s list. His panels (single pictures) tell an anecdote but no continued stories. Like the soft light of a kerosene lamp, they light up, with humor and understanding, the quiet corners of everyday life that are passed over by the searchlights of the news. The runny-nosed children and distracted parents of "Born Thirty Years Too Soon," "The Worry Wart" and "Why Mothers Get Gray" are gently...
Four of a Kind. The Kaiser-Frazer Corp. rolled out its 100,000th car. It announced that a custom-built Kaiser luxury sedan ($2,301 F.O.B. Willow Run) would be added to its three models...
...atomic particle: the neutral meson, which leads an even more feverishly active life than the positive and negative meson which scientists already know about. In its normal habitat within an atomic nucleus, it "lives" only one hundredth of a sextillionth (1/100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000th) of a second. The neutral meson's brief life, remarked Professor Oppenheimer, may be the reason no physicist has yet seen...
While doing antisubmarine research for the Navy, Jenkins and Bowen examined seawater under an ultraviolet microscope. Every cubic inch, they discovered, contained about 1,500,000 submicroscopic particles 1/50,000th of an inch in diameter. These particles reflect violet, blue and green light rays back to the surface, where they combine to give ocean water its characteristic color. When water looks green, it contains larger particles (silt or small living creatures) which reflect other kinds of light...
...driving rain, at Britain's seacoast town of Deal, the Mayor and a handful of raincoated freemen gathered to pay solemn tribute to a conqueror. The occasion : the unveiling of a memorial tablet to Julius Caesar on the 2,000th anniversary of his invasion...