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...signal corps was on hand to explain it all. Ten feet below, its entrance a hole cut in the roof by the Russians, lay the tunnel itself: a cast-iron tube about six feet in diameter and 500-600 yards long, crammed with electronic equipment, cables, tape recorders, ventilating apparatus and pumps of both British and American make. At the East German end, cables led out of the main body of the tunnel to a separate chamber where they were linked to two East German cables and a third used by the Russians. What was at the American...
...cover a situation of stalemate in the power struggle, the old Leninist phrase "collective leadership" was revived. The apparatus Stalin left behind was neither youthful, vigorous, nor rich in ideas. Some oldtimers like Molotov (66) are apparently slated for retirement, or about to be kicked upstairs, say, to the presidency in place of aging (75), ailing Marshal Voroshilov, who has taken to drinking heavily. Khrushchev, at 62, is in no shape to engage in a long-term fight and this makes him basically unsure of his position. On the other hand there is Malenkov (54) and a group of Central...
...took up radio astronomy seriously when the University gave up the South African installation. He has since attained world stature in the field, and is one of the key planners of the projected National Radio Astronomy Observatory. Ewen, through his firm, the Ewen-Knight Corporation, has developed the electronic apparatus of the telescopes...
...sources of the radio signals received by such apparatus are believed to be of two kinds. The most certain is that they come from the lonized gas-clouds of the Milky Way. But the other source are known as "radio stars," some of which are near smaller interstellar explosions. Research on thele nature is progressing by the coordinated use of optical and radio instruments...
...films, in full color, will be used to demonstrate various aspects of laboratory technique. "We hope that the films will fill the gap between the lectures and the laboratory," Fieser said. At present, no demonstrations are given in Chemistry 20 lectures because "of the complexity of organic apparatus," he added...