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However suddenly the word of dismissal came, this was a topic that has been brewing in the UAC for several years. The Council, which has direct control over all cheerleading affairs, has repeatedly complained that the cheerleading system is poorly organized; that there is no apparatus for carrying the squad over from year to year by drumming up interest in cheerleading; that the men who are enlisted are not always particularly interested or spirited; and there therefore their performance on the gridiron is often lackadaisical...
...miles, and that this meant that future space wayfarers should not have much to fear from radiation. But the project's scientists promptly warned that such apparent discoveries may prove to be the result of instrument failure or a drop in the power supply of the recording apparatus. The definitive report on Pioneer's findings may not be released for weeks or months...
Since the accelerator is a unique machine, says M. Stanley Livingston, professor of physics at MIT and director of the project, the design of both the tunnel and the measuring apparatus requires a good deal of original work. To this end, physicists and engineers from MIT and Harvard have been busy for the past two years. Livingston expects construction to be finished early in 1960, and, after the machine is "turned up" and tested, operation should begin later that year...
Last week the Weather Bureau successfully tried out an apparatus that makes the hurricane itself tell the position of its center. An Air Force B50 flew over the calm eye of Hurricane Helene, then 500 miles east of Palm Beach. A metal cylinder dropped from its bomb bay. After it had fallen a while, a plastic bag popped out and inflated to form a balloon 20 ft. in diameter. From it dangled a miniature radio transmitter...
...deep underground explosion sends no air waves, but such explosions, and surface explosions too, send seismic waves through the earth. A station in a quiet place can detect the waves from a one-kiloton explosion as much as 2,200 miles away. The detecting apparatus is accurate enough to pinpoint the explosion within an area of 40-80 sq. mi., less than one-quarter the area of New York City...