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When completed, the Cambridge Electron Accelerator will be the highest energy electron machine in the world. Its maximum energy of 6 billion electron volts is approximately five times as great as that of the largest accelerators now in operation--one at Cal Tech and the other at Cornell. The largest accelerator of any kind is the 30 billion electron volt proton accelerator under construction at the Atomic Energy Commission's Brookhaven laboratories on Long Island...
...Underdog Lehigh scored after trailing Delaware 7-0, faced the crucial choice: kick for the tie, or run or pass for the victory. Lehigh gambled and won 8-7. ¶ Southern California made two last-quarter touchdowns to come within a point of favored Michigan. Like Lehigh, Southern Cal went for the win, wound up 20-19 losers when the pass play for two points was stopped short of the end zone...
...problem attacked by WIND and three other Westinghouse stations is real enough: 40% of ninth-graders in Chicago -and in the rest of the U.S.-do not go on to graduate from high school. But WIND, puffing a popular cause, peddles education with an announcer's No-Cal heartiness. The push began three weeks ago, winds up this week as school starts. Says the station's Program Manager David Croninger: "We put on a saturation campaign much like an ad agency would schedule to sell cigarettes." Hard-selling its product, the station each day broadcast a windbag...
...During a 1953 taxicab strike, Baker ordered his wife to provide an alibi for a night spent dumping a taxicab into the Mississippi River. After police found a loaded .38-cal. revolver and seven extra shells in his pocket, he was told he was unwelcome in St. Louis and would be arrested if seen with any hoodlums...
Last week three Boyd youths took direct action. Armed with a shotgun and a .22-cal. pistol, they visited Cockrell's chief sponsor. Mayor Willie Berle Horn, told him: "You get rid of Cockrell, or we will. And you'll be next." Answering a Horn call, Cockrell caught up with the boys in a grove of trees at town's edge, where farmers park their trucks to sell watermelons. There, in a wildly confused tussle, the shooting started. While frightened farmers dived under their trucks, Cockrell fell, shot three times with .22-cal. bullets...