Word: alphas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After a month of contradictions the Food and Drug Administration last week announced the chemical nature of STP, the latest jet-speed psychedelic. Says FDA: it is technically called 4-methyl 2.5 dimethoxy alpha methyl phenethylamine, but is known simply as DOM to the Dow Chemical Co., its discoverers. It is related to mescaline and amphetamine. Dow insists that none of its samples have leaked into illegal drug channels; the formula for making it must have been stolen. But pharmacologists believe that several different mind-shaking concoctions are being distributed to hippies under the magic initials STP, now translated...
Last year, Walker and another colleague discovered what may prove to be an even more sensitive dating method-the measurement of alpha-particle tracks. Uranium nuclei frequently emit an alpha particle. As the particle is expelled, the nucleus recoils. Walker reasoned that "recoil tracks would be there, so I looked for them." He discovered that observable recoil tracks occurred 4,000 times more than fission tracks. When acid etching and track counting are perfected for alpha particles, the method should provide a means of dating infinitesimally small objects and those too young to have accumulated measurable amounts of fission tracks...
...Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa yesterday announced the election of 99 graduating seniors to the Alpha Chapter of Massachusetts. Elected were...
...great rehearsal continued after the war at the University of Nebraska. Johnny majored in English, Speech and Alpha Phi girls when he wasn't off broadcasting for the local radio station or working magic on the service-club circuit. He was strictly an average student and strictly show business. He played Cleopatra in a fraternity spectacular called She Was Only a Pharaoh's Daughter, But She Never Became a Mummy. His senior thesis, titled Comedy Writing, was not in manuscript but on tape. Its quotes and footnotes contained excerpts from Fred Allen, Fibber McGee and Molly...
Although the system was designed to take some of the pressure off harried FAA controllers, they themselves have found that alpha numerics poses a few problems of its own. To feed information about a flight into the radarscope and attach that information to the appropriate blip, for example, the controller must turn away from the screen to punch buttons on a computer input box, leaving his flights unattended for several vital seconds. In addition, as the alphanumeric data blocks move with their appropriate blips across the screen, they occasionally merge with data blocks from other flights, making both sets...