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...manageable form. Most promising way to achieve fusion of hydrogen atoms is to squeeze them between enormously powerful magnetic fields, and such fields can only be created by equally powerful currents. When Zeus has passed its last tests, probably some time in June, Project Sherwood's apparatus will be waiting for its thunderbolts. The hope is that they can squeeze hydrogen hard enough to produce a flash of fusion energy...
...free divers." Spurning any line to the surface, they go down with tanks of compressed air strapped to their backs, a rubber mouthpiece between their teeth, and froglike fins on their feet. Experienced free divers-some prefer the term "scuba,"' for "self-contained underwater breathing apparatus'"-can cruise as deep as 130 ft. for up to 15 min. or at 40 ft. for two hours...
MOVING a magazine is like ordering 100,000 gallons of alphabet soup, to go. Last week, in Manhattan, it went. After 22 years at 9 Rockefeller Plaza, TIME'S editorial apparatus-from green pencils to Teletypesetting machines-moved a block west to the new 48-story TIME and LIFE Building at 50th Street and the Avenue of the Americas...
...shown a Shakespearean fascination with the life of the strolling player, the poor mountebank who, "like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven as make the angels weep." Clearly, he sees himself as such an ape. Says Bergman: "I perform conjuring tricks with a conjuring apparatus so expensive and so wonderful that any performer in history would have given anything to use it. I am really a conjurer, and in my work I am guilty of deceit...
...Castro-admiring magazine Bohemia ran a section titled "What the Soviet Exposition Does not Show," included in it: "The powerful military apparatus to oppress the people, the extremely low level of the popular classes, the crimes of Hungary," The old Auténtico Party, once Cuba's strongest, sensed an issue; in its first public declaration of the Castro era, the party raised what it called "the anti-Communist banner...