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...jungle to "Z.I." (zone of the interior, meaning the U.S.). And the statistics of survival testify to the operation's success. In World War I, the fatality rate was 5.5% of the wounded; in World War II, 3.3%; in Korea, 2.7%. In Viet Nam, estimates Commander Almon C. Wilson, head of the 3rd Medical Battalion at Danang, it is below...
...four are: Clopper Almon Jr., instructor in Economics: Phoebus J. Dhrymes, now at the Institute for Mathematical Study in the Social Sciences at Stanford; Elliott J. Berg, instructor in Economics; and Thomas A. Wilson, instructor in Economics...
...table of elements. By last week they were up to No. 103. But the job is getting increasingly difficult; the newest element was so frail that it decayed almost before anyone recognized that it was around. It was manufactured, explained a lab team (Albert Ghiorso, Torbjorn Sikkeland, Almon E. Larsh and Robert M. Latimer), by coating thin nickel foil with a circular film of artificial californium (element 98) only one-tenth of an inch in diameter. Placed in a container filled with helium gas, this tiny target was bombarded by a beam of boron nuclei from...
...Berkeley element makers-Almon Larsh, 32, and Robert Latimer, 26-are native Californians. Larsh, the son of a traveling salesman from Oklahoma, graduated from Caltech as an electrical engineer. Chemist Latimer, a Berkeley graduate, was born with a silver test tube in his mouth: his father, Wendell Latimer, was a famous chemist and head of Berke ley's department of chemistry. But the distinction brought young Robert no favors at the Radiation Lab. His own scientific skill earned him the right to handle the intricate machinery with which new elements are manufactured...
...Undertaker's Dial." To the nation's fast-growing telephone industry, a Kansas City undertaker named Almon B. Strowger made one of the greatest contributions. Strowger was convinced that a competitor was bribing the operator, trying to beat him out of business by snatching death calls intended for him. To eliminate the operator, Strowger invented the first, crude dial system, set up his own company after a Bell official turned down his system. Not till the independents had widely installed the dial did A. T. & T. go along. Many people protested the move. When dial phones were installed...