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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Physicist Luis Alvarez, associate director of the Radiation Lab, was not in the audience. He was at the White House delivering a strobo-scopic gadget he had invented to improve President Eisenhower's golf game. But Alvarez knew about the Glaser paper, and had plans for improvements. The best liquid to use, he thought, was not ether; it was pure liquid hydrogen, which contains no carbon or oxygen atoms to confuse researchers...
...Standard & Poor's found that in June there were 82 dividend boosts (v. 55 a year ago), only four cuts (v. 58) and 13 omissions (v. 40). It believes that "an unusually large number of extras will be voted near the close of the year, making 1959 the best year on record...
...Maxims (Random House; $3.50), La Rochefoucauld narrowed his vision. Indeed, some of the maxims are strangely naive and platitudinous, suggesting once again that cynicism is sentimentality in reverse-and that, perhaps, the sheltered courtier could have learned from the crude common sense of the peasant. Yet at his best, as Kronenberger puts it, "La Rochefoucauld, in his way, has peered quite as sharply as modern specialists in theirs, into a dark realm of tangled and unsightly motives. Again and again, [he] anticipated the Freudians." Some samples from an adroit translation...
Brunswick, Me., Summer Playhouse: Guys and Dolls, Damon Runyon's Broadway blended with the best of Tin Pan Alley...
Room at the Top. A tragicomedy of Angry Young Manners about a Julien Sorel of the welfare state. Sometimes embarrassingly close to caricature, it remains one of the best British pictures in years...