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Ewen, and Bart J. Bok, Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy, are the co-directors of the Radio Astronomy Program. Bok signalizes the Bloemfontein effect in that he 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...
...College Observatory's new 60-foot radio telescope will be dedicated on April 28, Bart J. Bok, Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy, announced yesterday...
...Bart J. Bok, Robert Wheeler Professor of Applied Astronomy, and Edward M. Purcell, professor of Physics, are now in Washington meeting on the National Science Foundation's advisory panel on radio astronomy. They are discussing details of the project and considering six possible sites in the Appalachians, from the southeast corner of West Virginia through to the western portion of the Carolinas. This area is especially suitable because of its freedom from radio and television interference...
...gloomier moments Poet T. S. Eliot predicted that Western civilization's sole enduring monuments would be "the asphalt road and a thousand lost golf balls." Not if Bart Leiper of Gatlinburg, Tenn. has his way. Leiper, a drumbeater for the local Chamber of Commerce, needed a gimmick to promote the opening of Gatlinburg's new Pigeon Forge golf course and hit on a surefire teaser: atomic golf balls. At nearby Oak Ridge he persuaded scientists to inject three golf balls with pellets of radioactive cobalt 60, happily headed home to Gatlinburg with the fixings. On opening day last...
...change only slowly, are far less sharply drawn than his self-made types, who thrust through the community on the drive of their greed, hate and hope. When action finally and awesomely explodes, the upper-crusters crumble to bits. An old steelworker's sons, the power-vaunting Bart Mijack and his murderous brother, destroy their family, their union, their community and, in a last, lurid, mountain-top climax, their own lives. This is a big, dark, earnest book with all its wallop in the last pages...