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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Blended Light. While a neutron-star might be luminous, it would probably be too small to be seen in any telescope. But Zwicky believes that it will act as a "gravitational lens." The gravitational field around it will be so intense that it will bend all light coming near it. Some rays, passing close, will be turned back on their tracks. Others will be turned less sharply. The result in the telescope's eye will be a faint disk of light made up of small contributions from all the stars in the universe. This blended light should be possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Littlest Star | 7/14/1952 | See Source »

...electric arm which Dr. Kessler described was made by International Business Machines Corp. The switches are operated by pressure of the toes. Electric motors supply power to bend and extend the elbow and wrist, to rotate the lifelike, plastic hand and to open and close the fingers and thumb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Electric Arms & Hands | 6/2/1952 | See Source »

...less information to write a general polemic against an entire policy than it does to criticize specific weaknesses in that policy. For in the latter, you are forced to know in some detail what the present policy is. 2. By disagreeing with him, you force the instructor to bend over backwards in grading your fiction lest he seem to penalize you for merely opposing his view...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Beating the System | 5/22/1952 | See Source »

Paul R. Rugo '55 testified at the meeting that "We got to the station. . .we went single file through a tunnel. Just as I got to a bend in the tunnel, someone asked me, 'You hurt bad sonny?' I turned around to answer him and I was whacked two times on the head, I don't know with what. Then another cop came up and told the other...

Author: By Erik Amfitheatrof and David L. Halberstam, S | Title: Witnesses Tell Council Of Police Favoritism in Melee | 5/20/1952 | See Source »

...become an eyesore. (Indians called the weaving, U-turning river "drunken-old-man-going-home-at-night.") Distressed citizens raised funds for a beautification program, got WPA help, dredged and cleaned the river, built arched bridges, cobblestone terraces and walks, planted trees, grass and flowers along the "big bend" section. Today the river park is the city's pride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: KEEP OFF THE GRASS | 5/19/1952 | See Source »

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