Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Windows in a car and a bus were smashed before town police showed up, roughly packed the hooting collegians back into their dormitories-then, in an uncommon breach of the Geneva Convention for such affairs, followed the students inside and broke down a door to arrest undergraduate wrongdoers. Police bag: 24 wet-handed scholars...
...while, nothing happened; a Knights of Columbus contingent even grinned when a few students quavered out God Save the Queen as they passed. Then, toward the parade's end, a snowball hit a motorcycle cop who had been holding back crowds by gunning his tricycle back and forth. Almost everyone managed to be wrongheaded about what followed. The national vice president of the Ancient Order of Hibernians nonsensically protested that the disturbance was an attack on Roman Catholicism; Yale students howled that it was hobnailed police brutality; and Yale's President A. Whitney Griswold charged it to "childishness...
Christofilos was born in Boston in 1916, the son of Greek immigrant parents who ran a small restaurant. When he was seven, they took him back to Greece. In the National Technical University at Athens, Christofilos took electrical engineering. After graduation in 1938, he went to work for an elevator-building company. When the Germans occupied Greece in 1941, they turned the plant into a truck repair shop and gave him an easy supervisory job. Christofilos seized the chance to read all the German books he could get on advanced atomic physics. After the war he returned to the elevator...
...polished his theory and brought it to New York in 1953. He went straight to the Public Library, where he found that the strong focusing principle had already been developed independently by Brookhaven National Laboratory. "So you see," he says irrepressibly, "on the first day I came back to my country I found that my theories were...
...copper that the industry was asking for tariffs and subsidies. By last week copper supplies were, so tight that the price of copper was bobbing like a puppet. Custom smelters, who had been selling copper at 32? a lb., got out of the market for a week, came back at 34?-a lb. Major producers were selling copper at 31? a lb., v. last year...