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...innumerable churches sat m the sky like frozen clouds. The cross atop the Tower of Ivan the Great glistened m the sun, and told visitors approaching from all over Russia that they were near their goal. In the streets, the people lanced and blessed their city upon its 800th anniversary. It was as Moscow's son, Alexander Pushkin, had written "Moscow: those syllables can start A tumult in the Russian heart!" In 1947 those syllables produced tumultuous twinges not in Russian hearts alone...
...shaped like a peaked roof. In manufacture, a piece of glass is first sawed roughly to shape, then ground to exact proportions by a delicate hand. In the final product, every facet must be absolutely flat; the right angle between the roof facets must be accurate within one 1,800th of a degree...
...Lawrence, hurls positively charged particles, the nuclei of atoms. But the betatron hurls the negatively charged particles which spin about the nuclei of atoms. Unlike the cyclotron's positive particles, the betatron's hurtling electrons will not effectively smash atoms-for one reason, they weigh only 1/1 800th as much as the nucleus' proton...
Portugal's primitives, hidden in isolated monasteries and village churches, were soon forgotten. But recently Lisbon's National Academy of Beaux-Arts has begun to gather them. Last month Portugal celebrated its 800th birthday, its 300th year of freedom from the temporary domination of Spain. Lisbon's Academy of Beaux-Arts decided to celebrate with an exhibition of 319 paintings by Portugal's 15th-and 16th-Century primitives...
...were beginning to catch on, Jack Dempsey was world's heavyweight champion, Calvin Coolidge was President and Manhattan's Jimmy Walker was still a State Senator. Last week, New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia presented Lou Gehrig with a scroll for having played in his 1,800th consecutive game...