Word: alpha
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...squeezed into one phone booth. Students in South Africa then pushed the number up to 25. Not to be outdone by foreigners, 32 students at Modesto Junior College, California, claimed to have crammed themselves into one booth. And, the following week, the Oklahoma City University chapter of Lambda Chi Alpha managed to jam 33 of its fraternity brothers into one booth before 1500 cheering witnesses...
...Xamed by a National Aeronautics and Space Administration public-relations man who served in the Army 16 years ago. forgot that the first two letters of the military spoken alphabet have been changed to -'Alpha" and "Bravo." The impersonal names were chosen to ameliorate the wrath of professional animal lovers, but Monkey Baker, a furry, cuddlesome item, also picked up the unofficial laboratory nickname of TLC (for Tender Loving Care). Monkey Able was born in Kansas, a fact that NASA hopes will still a few cries in India, where her relatives are hardly less sacred than cows...
...face is mottled with hot clouds of hydrogen gas, which seem to be the source of some of the radiation that periodically disrupts radio communication, and may have an important effect on the earth's weather. The clouds give off ultraviolet rays on the so-called Lyman-alpha line of the spectrum, midway between visible light and X rays. Since these rays are absorbed by the earth's atmosphere long before they can reach the ground, no earthbound camera has ever been able to make a photographic record of the clouds or their movements...
...rocket soared through the atmosphere; 123 miles up, the camera began clicking. The camera was fitted with a mirror ruled with a grating of fine lines, 15,000 to the inch, designed to filter out the sun's glaring visible light, which otherwise would have overwhelmed the Lyman-alpha rays given off by the clouds. To keep the camera stabilized in the nose of the yawing rocket, University of Colorado physicists had devised a highly sophisticated motor-operated mount, equipped with photoelectric cells that locked on the sun and kept the camera aimed directly...
...Alpha Omega Alpha, student honor society at the Medical School, is sponsoring the lectures, open to the public, "in an effort to communicate recent findings in the promising field of medical sociology to a wider audience...