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...Powerful Oar. During recent weeks Radford's quiet opinions have been showing up in so many phases-successful phases-of U.S. policy that Radio Moscow has taken to denouncing him as "one of the most influential men in the apparatus." With the prestige and style he has accumulated during 3½ years on the J.C.S. and 40 years in the Navy, Radford dips a powerful oar into nearly every basic policy decision confronting the nation. Currently he is urging that the U.S. speed shipments of short-and medium-range missiles (Nikes, Matadors, Snarks) to bolster the defenses of Great...
...single magnetic explosion, which makes a bang like a big gun, destroys costly apparatus, so Furth, Levine and Waniek are trying to design a super-magnet that will not destroy itself. The basic idea is to oppose one magnetic force by another magnetic force instead of by the passive strength of metal. Theoretically this can be done by elaborately wound coils, or by copper sheets intersecting in intricate ways. The theory looks so good that the three scientists are promising to deliver many million gauss of magnetic field, and to churn matter in ways that it has never been churned...
...M.P.H. SPEEDS for intercontinental missiles will be studied at Cornell University under new $1,000,000 Air Force contract. School will build hypersonic wind tunnel and high-temperature research apparatus, test models at 15 times speed of sound and temperatures close to sun's surface (10,000°F.). Biggest job: to develop metals that can withstand such heat...
...Robert E. Gross, Ladd Professor of Surgery, demonstrated a mechanical heart and emphasized the importance of animal experimentation in developing the apparatus. Many of the physicians pointed out that at the present time, the state exterminates almost 160,000 stray animals a year, while only 16,000 of these would satisfy the requirements of Massachusetts researchers...
Another Chinese physicist at Columbia, Associate Professor Chien-Shiung Wu, went to Washington. Working with a topflight team at the National Bureau of Standards, she arranged an elaborate deepfreeze apparatus to cool radioactive cobalt 60 to 0.01° above absolute zero ( - 273.1° C.). The cobalt nuclei are known to be spinning, and they continue to spin in the deepfreeze, but their random "thermal" motions are reduced almost to nothing by the extreme cold. This accomplished. Dr. Wu and her helpers applied a powerful magnetic field that pointed the cobalt nuclei in one direction as if they were tiny magnets...