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Burned-out Beam. While paying tribute to Lawrence's inventive genius and leadership, Davis details his failings, which were considerable. Although Stanley Livingston, graduate student at Berkeley, devised two of the beam-focusing techniques that enabled Lawrence to build the first of the big atom smashers, Lawrence failed to mention Livingston in his patent application and generally avoided crediting him for his work. When Livingston complained, Lawrence coldly suggested that if he felt dissatisfied he was free to drop out of the cyclotron project...
...other scientists and won approval for the construction of a monstrous proton accelerator for converting nonfissionable uranium 238 into fission able plutonium, which could be used in nuclear weapons. This time, after three years and huge expenditures, Lawrence completed the accelerator. But to his chagrin, it produced an effective beam of protons for only two hours, then burned out and never could be used again...
...Your article on Agnew was probably the most viciously biased, prejudiced and uncalled-for attack on an American citizen. TIME has long been known to be off the beam of American thinking, and you have done it again...
...filters as American smokers, and American Tobacco Chairman Barney ("Brand-a-Month-Barney") Walker has plenty of brands for the British market, led by fast-selling Tareyton. In addition, Walker can also introduce through Gallaher such products as Mott's apple sauce, Sunshine Biscuits, and perhaps even Jim Beam bourbon...
...managed to work his way onto the stage of life where the lights of opportunity shine brightly. And he has made his mind up to take himself a major role in the modern American Drama. Little Black children everywhere can hold their beautiful black heads high and beam with a black pride that no one can take from them. For the Black man has shouldered the weight of this country's evils and yet maintained a kind of cool perseverance, drive and stick-to-itive-ness that can never be overlooked nor forgotten...