Word: betas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...court judge. After prepping at Hotchkiss. young Potter wavered between law and journalism at Yale, was chairman of the Yale Daily News, tried a summertime stint as a cub reporter on the Taft family's Cincinnati Times-Star before finally deciding on law. Graduated cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa (1937)) ne spent a year studying international law at Cambridge University on a Henry Fellowship (awarded to four U.S. college graduates a year), then graduated from Yale Law School ('41), also cum laude. He saw World War II sea duty as a lieutenant aboard Navy oilers, "floating around...
...fire hose and earned a black eye during a battle between his sophomore class and freshmen, ran and lost for president of the junior class. In the Rockefeller tradition he also taught Sunday school, abstained from smoking and the traditional applejack parties in White River Junction and made Phi Beta Kappa as his father had at Brown...
...study." Donner's parents put him through the University of Michigan because, explained his aged mother: "A boy can't become an honor student unless you pay his way." Fred became an honor student in economics, got straight A's (except one history B), made Phi Beta Kappa...
...space, a nuclear explosion will behave very differently. Its gamma rays will not be absorbed; traveling at the speed of light, they may do damage to humans and to delicate electrical apparatus-including missiles-miles away. Just behind them will come fast-expanding concentric shells of radioactive beta particles (electrons), alpha particles (charged helium nuclei) and neutrons. Bringing up the rear will be the hot gases of the ball of fire, which will expand indefinitely. Some of the residue of an explosion above the atmosphere will presumably shoot out of the solar system. But the amount of lethal fallout...
...concluded with "Prelude to an Evening" and "Painted Head," and at the audience's request, he read a poem he had first written for a Harvard Phi Beta Kappa convocation...