Word: berkeley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Charter Hill above Berkeley, Calif, a strange and monstrous machine, the AEC's bevatron,* was slowly coming to life last week. Housed in a circular building 75 feet high is a steel doughnut 135 feet in diameter and weighing 10,000 tons. This is the world's greatest magnet, energized by current flowing through 26.5 miles of copper cable two inches thick. When its current was first turned on, a crashing clatter shook the bevatron building as iron objects on the floor rearranged themselves violently to fit the invisible pattern of its magnetic field...
Though Okatie Farms may receive 5,000 or more monkeys a month, the supply never catches up with the demand. After 21 days for rigorous health checks, they are on their way to laboratories in Toronto, Pittsburgh, Detroit and Berkeley, Calif...
Died. John Lloyd Balderston, 64, foreign correspondent turned playwright, best known in the U.S. for his 1929 Broadway hit, Berkeley Square, and its movie version (1933), both starring the late Leslie Howard; of a heart attack; in Hollywood...
Leverett lost to Berkeley, 30 to 29, in the Harvard-Yale basketball intramural House championship at the IAB yesterday, as the Eli's captain turned an apparent Crimson victory into a defeat in the final seconds of play...
...huge, new Brooklyn studio, Director Albert McCleery made a spectacular pageant of the play, with wolfhounds, horses, birds, ships, a cast of 37 (including Kent Smith and Sarah Churchill) and a mountain of scenery packed into twelve sets, ranging from a prison cell to the 40 ft. battlements of Berkeley Castle...