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...massive steel and copper ring 700 ft. in diameter will make Long Island the world's atom-smashing capital. This week the Atomic Energy Commission announced that it will finance an "alternating gradient synchrotron" to shoot out beams of protons with energies up to 25 "bev" (25 billion electron-volts). It will be built at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, L.I. Probable cost: 20 megabucks ($20 million). Completion time: five to six years...
...ring, big enough to encircle seven baseball diamonds laid end to end, will be a sight like nothing else on earth, but what it will do for scientists may be even more spectacular. The accelerators already in operation (most powerful is Brookhaven's 2.3 bev cosmotron) have revealed that the nuclei of atoms are anything but simple...
...bev cosmotron, a "doughnut" 70 ft. in diameter and 8 ft. in cross section, needs 2,000 tons of steel for the magnets that keep its protons on circular orbits. To build a 25 bev machine on this same pattern would have required a fantastic amount of steel. Chief difficulty: the particles cannot be kept on accurate orbits, and so they must be provided with a wide (32 in. cross section) vacuum chamber. It takes massive steel magnets to fill this space with the necessary magnetic field...
...tally was recorded, famous names were called in victory or defeat. ¶J In Devonport, Randolph Churchill, Winston's only son, failed to unseat Bev-anite Michael Foote by 2,390 votes. But Churchill's two sons-in-law, Duncan Sandys (husband of Diana) and Christopher Soames (husband of Mary), won their Conservative seats...
...Rebel Aneurin Bevan piled up a heavier than usual majority in the Welsh constituency of Ebbw Vale. The two Ministers who resigned with him, Harold Wilson and John Freeman, held their seats. So did the rest of the small camp of Bev-anites, including Sevan's own wife, Jennie Lee. Mr. and Mrs. Bevan are the only man & wife team in the House of Commons. ¶ In Plymouth, John Jacob Astor, parachutist son of a famed spitfire parliamentarian, Lady Astor, wrested his mother's old Commons seat from Laborite Lucy Annie Middleton by 710 votes. Brother William Waldorf...