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Last week the AEC's Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory announced a major step toward direct conversion: an experimental "plasma thermocouple" no bigger than a can of frozen orange juice. Placed inside the core of a research reactor, the device produced 40 watts of electricity -enough to light a household light bulb...
...Rome. Once known in the U.S. as the "Flying Fascist," De Bernardi was a World War I ace (nine enemy planes), flew experimental jets as early as 1940, in recent years put all his savings into the development of a two-cylinder, 40-h.p. single-seater not much bigger than the dragonfly for which it was named. Last week De Bernardi heard that a group of aviation experts had collected at a Roman airport to watch some German pilots demonstrate a new light plane. Hopping on his motor scooter, he zipped out to the field, took...
...gallon; a Rambler Deluxe was second, with a 22.9572-m.p.g. average. Third place was won by a Studebaker Lark Deluxe, with 22.4422. For the first time entries were judged this year on an actual miles-per-gallon basis instead of the ton-mileage formula used previously, which favored bigger, heavier cars...
...appears that Harvard, too, or perhaps especially, has succumbed to a distinctly American ideology; for University officials now promise us bigger and better Dean's Lists along with our bigger and better Houses, facilities, scholarships, and tuitions. We are assured that the percentage of students on the Dean's List is increasing rapidly and steadily, and that we may look forward to a time in the very near future when at least half the class appears on this distinctive roster...
Unterberg, Towbin's holdings in its own nurslings have boosted the firm's capital from a mere $20,000 to more than $2,500,000 today. But though their ventures have been almost uniformly successful, and bigger underwriters have learned how profitable it can be to sign up for one of their undertakings, the partners are a little apprehensive about the current fervor for low-priced glamour stocks. "These days," says Towbin, "anybody with a soldering iron and a piece of wire calls himself an electronics company. We find only one or maybe two really good companies...