Word: allens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Allen Ginsberg, Mr. Gregory Corso and Mr. Peter Orlovsky were greeted by a crowd which filled New Lecture Hall to capacity-although the audience thinned out somewhat during the course of the evening-and several hundred were turned away...
Doris Lee Allen is the actress faced with the awesome responsibility of living up to Antigone's advance billing as the girl who would "Rise up alone against Creon, her uncle, the King." Tragic inevitability is embodied in Antigone, "the pride of Oedipus"; "Death was her purpose," and the matter of the burial of her rebel brother's body only a pretext. Miss Allen does a competent job, quite effective in quiet moments, but she is not heroic...
Most important were two Geiger tubes, one of them unshielded, the other wrapped in sheet lead about ⅛ in. thick. Devised by Professor James Van Allen of State University of Iowa, they watched the double belt of radiation that bears Van Allen's name. The naked tube reported all radiation that hit it, while the shielded tube reported only radiation strong enough to penetrate its shield. By comparing the tubes' reports with each other, Van Allen hopes to learn more about the character and origin of the radiation belts...
...where bullies must be identified and overthrown. Behan ("Paddy" to his Borstal pals) was good at both. His worst words are reserved not for the tough screws but for two unpleasant fellow prisoners called James and Dale: "I was no country Paddy from the middle of the Bog of Allen to be frightened to death by a lot of Liverpool seldom-fed bastards . . . No, be Jesus, I was from Russell Street, North Circular Road, Dublin, from the Northside where, be Jesus, the likes of Dale wouldn't make a dinner for them, where the whole of this pack...
...Allen Hynek, Director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, placed the blame for the loss principally on the Air Force's failure to notify the observatory--headquarters for the moonwatch project--in time to alert the Moonwatch teams to search for the satellite visually. Other sources placed the blame for the secrecy that had surrounded the launching on "unfortunate interservice rivalries...