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...orbit 14 to 16 hours, long enough to make eight circuits around the earth. When they did start talking, they gave a good deal of information. Sputnik III carries no man, dog or other experimental organism, and it is not designed to return to earth. Writing in Pravda, Academician L. I. Sedov said that it could have carried a man, but "such an experiment would be premature." Professor Evgeny Fedorov, an official spokesman, said that Sputnik III had been launched with "customary chemical fuels," not with atomic energy, and the launching technique was about the same as with the earlier...
Abandoned Principle. On graduation, Morse decided that the one thing he really wanted to do was to paint. He was apprenticed to the great expatriate, Benjamin West, in London, and four years later came home an accomplished academician with an art that was as cool as its reception. For many years Artist Morse had a hard time making ends meet. So at 41 he abandoned his father's principle of attending to one thing at a time to resume tinkering with electricity. The principle of the telegraph was in his head. After a decade of tinkering Morse achieved what...
Artist Chabas, an established academician, worked slowly. His sessions lasted only 30 minutes each, and the posing continued for two more summers, until one September morning in 1912 the picture was finally finished. In honor of the day, Chabas called his canvas Matinée de Septembre-"September Morn." Shown...
...Emetic "We." Academician Bergen Evans, an English professor at Northwestern who doubles as the question concoctor for The $64,000 Question, takes the easygoing view that language is what its users make of it. It is usually Critic Brown who is the first to cry Fowler. Both quick-witted, the two men also strike sparks with contrasting personalities: stocky Evans, 52, often rides roughshod over the conversation with a donnish cackle and a rapid, sing-song voice that strikes some listeners like chalk drawn across a blackboard; lean, white-haired Brown, 57, a veteran lecturer and darling of women...
Tsuru felt he developed "quite radical views" during 1936-37. He promoted the Marxist magazine, Science in Society, and associated with many individuals who held Communistic views. Among his friends was the late E. Herbert Norman, whom he described as "a moderate, quiet academician." Norman, accused of Communism during the U.S. Senate investigation, committed suicide last week in Cairo, where he was Canadian ambassador...