Word: cal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have many Harvard friends, but we surely are ashamed of their alma mater. Here's hoping you all land in Korea soon. Mrs. Ina B. Cronk Los Angeles, Cal. Los Angeles...
...powerful running attack and plentiful reserves, California is ranked tops on the Coast, among the top ten in the nation. U.C.L.A., lacking depth, holds two aces: Runner-Passer Paul Cameron, tabbed by "Red" Sanders as "the best tailback I've ever coached," and Center Donn Moomaw. Southern Cal is rated close behind U.C.L.A. Washington, with above-par linemen, has great expectations if Passer Don Heinrich's shoulder, injured last season, holds up. Stanford, with most of the Cinderella team gone, has Bob Mathias...
Eileen Fahey was blonde, pretty, 18 years old, a secretary and bookkeeper; now she was lying sprawled on the floor beside her desk, dead, with five .22-cal. pistol bullets in her body. To the band of New York homicide detectives who looked down at her last week, all this seemed less startling than her surroundings. The quiet offices of the American Physical Society at Columbia University seemed the most unlikely spot in Manhattan for murder...
...spending a night in a St. Louis jail, Alben William Barkley Truitt, 18-year-old grandson of the Vice President, was released to continue his hitchhiking jaunt from a construction job in Alaska to Paducah, Ky. Police had picked him up on a downtown street carrying a loaded .32-cal. pistol. He had found the pistol, said Truitt, and was merely trying to sell it to buy food. The state refused to prosecute, on the grounds that Missouri law permits peaceful interstate travelers to be armed...
Astronomer Fritz Zwicky of Cal Tech thinks there is another way to pack matter tightly. Normal atoms contain one electron for each proton in the nucleus. If the electrons could be persuaded to unite with the protons, each pair would form a neutron. This reaction does not take place under normal conditions; the electrons circle forever, and the protons stay in the nucleus. But Zwicky believes that under the strange and violent conditions that exist in certain large stars, electrons may unite with protons...