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...Department prides itself on having the most collegiate looking, fire station in the country. Certainly it is one of the largest in the country. Most fire houses are two story affairs, but the Central has three stories, equal actually to five ordinary stories since the ground floor, called the apparatus room, is three stories high...
...Purcell and his group succeeded in devising apparatus which enables magnetic properties to be determined to an accuracy of one part in a million...
...under subpoena for what he called "this unpleasant ritual." He was ex-Communist Agent Whittaker Chambers. Had David Zablodowsky, a $14,600-a-year director of U.N. publications, been a member of the Soviet underground in the U.S.? the committee counsel asked. Yes, replied Chambers, Zablodowsky worked in an apparatus that procured forged passports and other papers for Russian agents...
...final dash. The Swiss party's big hope for success this time is based on their improved "third lung" breathing equipment. Last May Lambert and his Nepalese guide had to quit because they were forced to halt every few steps and laboriously adjust their oxygen flow. The new apparatus is lighter, will give the climbers a steady oxygen supply, rarely needs adjustment...
Last spring ten nations (Belgium, The Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, France, West Germany, Italy, Switzerland and Yugoslavia) organized CERN (Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucléaire) and agreed to chip in for a nuclear research center. Continental Europe has plenty of big scientific brains, but no big apparatus...