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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Debating on the topic, "Wallace or Byres?--Are Russia and the U. S. Headed for War?," will be Stanley Carson '49, Raymond Baer, Joseph Clear, and Robert Kibitz. All University students, members or non-members of AC, are invited to attend the gathering...
Shrunken yardsticks are hard to measure, but the increase of mass which Einstein predicted in 1905 has been observed ac curately. Certain material particles shot out by radium move at 185,000 m p s, almost the speed of light. When they are weighed in flight (by a magnetic device), their mass is shown to have increased ac cording to his prediction...
...told the students: "Unless the atom bomb is controlled for peace, one out of three persons in this auditorium will probably die of the effects of atomic energy." The Oak Ridge school kids, soberly shocked, organized a Youth Council on the Atomic Crisis (which they promptly nicknamed "Yak-Ac...
Last week s.even members of Yak-Ac visited Philadelphia as guests of the Philadelphia Record and the United Nations Council of Philadelphia (chairman: retired Supreme Court Justice Owen J. Roberts). In five days the three girls & four boys spoke to an estimated 21,000 students and parents at eleven schools, a luncheon, a church, the Town Hall, three radio audiences. Sample speech (by Mary Lane, 17): "We think there must be a world organization if we are to survive in the atomic age. And we believe that education is the first step...
Showman Elman (who gets people like Kathleen Winsor, Helen Jepson and Ac tress Elissa Landi to add atmosphere) sells mostly curios of the famous and infamous. Samples: Adolf Hitler's dice ($150); Thomas Alva Edison's personal dental chair ($300) ; a spoon made by Paul Revere ($105); Mark Twain's portable writing desk ($125); a dagger owned by Rudolph Valentino ($200); a letter from Field Marshal Rommel to his wife, dated October 1943, which read: "Russian campaign going well. . . . Americans not ready...