Word: beta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...retiring Len Hall's ebullience, but he brings to the job a record for action. Born in Suffield, Conn., he attended Dartmouth, there broke the world's record for the 60-yd. low hurdles. (His 6.9-sec. mark has since been lowered to 6.8.) He graduated Phi Beta Kappa, moved on to Yale Law School and was admitted to the bar in 1933. To his father, then traveling in Europe, Meade wired: "I am a lawyer." Replied Alcorn Sr.. who had been Hartford County state's attorney since 1908: "It will be many a year before...
...battery's power comes from promethium 147 (one of the more plentiful byproducts of nuclear fission), which emits low-energy beta particles (electrons). Other atomic batteries have attempted to turn beta particles directly into electric current, but they have often run into trouble because the particles damage the current-yielding parts of the battery. The Kidde-Elgin battery sidesteps this difficulty by mixing the promethium 147 with a phosphor (light-giving substance) and enclosing the mixture in transparent plastic. Electrons from the Pm-147 make the phosphor glow, and its light is turned into electricity by a photoelectric surface...
...known as the Law of Conservation of Parity, said, in effect, that the physical laws governing our world and a world which was the mirror-image of ours would be the same. However, in experiments involving the very slow "beta-decay" processes, scientists found that theory based on the Law could not explain certain observed phenomena...
...interviewed them, eventually whittled the number of candidates down to two nominees for each state. The 96 still in the running then had to go through the same process again before six-state district boards which picked the final 32. This year's crop includes five junior Phi Beta Kappas and 24 more who will get their keys by graduation. Two of the men were editors of their college newspapers, nine won varsity letters, four were captains or co-captains of varsity teams. Examples of this year's Rhodesmen...
...Erich Gruen, 21, whose father owns a bakery in Arlington, Va., is an ancient history major at Columbia, got his Phi Beta Kappa key in his junior year. He is a member of the steering committee of the senior class, is director of classical music for the Columbia radio station, heads the Ted Kremer honor society which devotes itself to social service...