Word: cea
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Shrewd Choice. In the office next to Duesenberry's customarily cluttered cubicle in Harvard's Littauer Center worked the man he will replace on the CEA: Otto Eckstein, the council's expert on unemployment, steel prices and steel productivity. Eckstein, named to the council in May 1964, must return to Harvard because his original one-year leave, already extended at Lyndon Johnson's request, is expiring...
Duesenberry's academic leave runs until September 1967. His appointment to the CEA, the President's third in a row from the faculty of Harvard or Yale, will leave the council's economic complexion virtually unchanged. Economists across the U.S. seem to agree that the choice was shrewd. "He fits right into the middle of CEA thinking," says Bob Roosa (for whom Duesenberry was a Treasury consultant). "He's a theorist with the quality of judgment." Considering the delicacy of the decisions he will help make, Duesenberry should find plenty of scope for that range...
With these funds, the CEA could begin running high energy experiments by the fall of 1968. Many of the experiments have already been thought out. They will test the basic laws of physics--and, according to Francis M. Pipkin, professor of Physics, they may break them...
...collision of two moving subnuclear particles--an electron and a positron. Normal accelerator experiments send a particle into a stationary target. But these cohisions, Pipkin said, can only take place in a "ring" where both particles are stored--which could cost as much as $16 million to build. The CEA instead would make a giant storage ring out of its accelerator by adding an injector for positrons to the present one for electrons. The two particles would rotate in opposite directions. At a given point the two streams could be made to collide and the collision tracked and studied...
Pipkin's experiments and several others that were being conducted at the CEA last July were designed to prepare for high energy physics. But almost all of them have been at a standstill for five months. "We've lost some time," Pipkin said. "Our academic progress since the explosion has been zero...