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Reporters crowded in, firing questions. What did he think of San Diego's unemployment problem? Said H.H.H., as if he were vice president of the local Chamber of Commerce: "I'd say the prognosis for the patient is very good...
...computer to a small, lO½-watt radio transmitter. It was programmed and equipped to send to Earth a continuous stream of reports on 39 scientific and 90 engineering measurements. Crowded into the spacecraft were a new type of helium gas magnetometer to study magnetic fields, an ionization chamber and Geiger counter to measure galactic cosmic rays, a collector cup to measure the solar wind's barrage of protons, a cosmic-ray telescope and cosmic-dust collector -plus the all-important TV camera. "I don't think you could improve the payload," said one of the project scientists...
...shadow of Vermont's Mount Hogback. The festival began when the trustees of tiny (128 students) Marlboro College offered its campus to some of its musical neighbors, most celebrated among them Pianist Rudolf Serkin. In the years since, Serkin has made the festival a center where outstanding soloists, chamber players and orchestral musicians come together for eight summer weeks to work and study in an atmosphere far removed from the usual professional pressures. Many turn down lucrative offers so that they can spend the season at Marlboro playing neglected or unknown works by famous and lesser-known composers. Serkin...
Although it is true that a scientific instrument such as the bubble chamber or even the accelerator itself does have an almost measurable "halflife" or period of peak usefulness, Pless explained, there is an excess of work for the approximately 15 bubble chambers in the world today...
...chamber is designed to allow experimenters to work with multiple pions and strange particle products by X-rays," Plenn explained...