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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...detect the existence of the anti-deuteron, Dr. Leon M. Lederman and his group worked with a device called a mass spectrometer at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island. Using Brookhaven's 33 billion electron volt synchrotron, they bombarded a target of beryllium with a beam of high-energy protons. This resulted in a debris of. particles that sped through the 300-ft. magnetic field of the spectrometer, where they could be sorted and analyzed. When 16 giant, 20-ton magnets were set to pass positively charged particles, the apparatus made careful readings of the flight path, momentum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Physics: Anti-Mirror on the Anti-Wall . . . | 6/25/1965 | See Source »

...feel they are already paying an exorbitant amount for the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. landlines that now link them to their affiliated stations in the U.S. So ABC Boss Leonard Goldenson has proposed a solution: a domestic version of the Early Bird, which would hover over the U.S., could beam its signals directly to network stations, thus making an end run around the A.T. & T. facilities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: End Run | 5/28/1965 | See Source »

...whole, though, Italy is a tourist's legal paradise. Customs officials are inclined to overlook illegal liquor and cigarettes (more than two botties or two cartons); a 90-day stay can be extended in minutes; an expired passport gets a 48-hour grace period; traffic cops beam at addled tourists and dole out multilingual warning notes rather than parking tickets. Even disorderly tourists get breaks unknown to disorderly natives, and a robbed tourist is likely to get faster police aid in Italy than in almost any other country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Law: A U.S. Tourist's Legal Sampler | 5/7/1965 | See Source »

...patients to "re-glue" the retina to the back of the eye ball after it has become detached (for reasons unknown), a condition that may quickly lead to blindness. By one of science's quirks, another recent treatment for retinal detachment involved use of the laser beam to produce a pinpoint of tremendous heat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surgery: The Cold That Cures | 4/30/1965 | See Source »

...water, I dumped one side of the parachute. My head barely went under the water. Surfacing, I found my dinghy only three strokes away. Ten seconds after touching down I was in the dinghy. Fifty seconds later I had ripped open my survival kit, set the squawk-radio beam going, activated my 11-h.p. radio and called Thunderbird Two. The first thing I asked him was whether he had sunk that gunboat. He said he had cut it in two with his 20-mm. cannon. Then I asked if Old Dumbo [a rescue seaplane] was coming, and he said right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: The Fighting American | 4/23/1965 | See Source »

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