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Harvard and M.I.T. announced this week that the Atomic Energy Commission is treating them jointly to a 6 billion-volt electron synchrotron, which will be built in Cambridge. Cost: $6,500,000. Its electrons will be steered around a circular vacuum chamber 236 ft. in diameter by 48 powerful magnets, each 11 ft. long, and they will be nudged to enormous speed by 16 radio-frequency circuits, each with the power of a full-scale television transmitter...
...unusual as the circular office building, the first of its kind in the world, is its owner-Capitol Records. Fourteen years ago Capitol was a shellac-like gleam in the eyes of three founders (including Blues in the Night Composer Johnny Mercer), who put up a grand total of $10,000. Last year Britain's giant, conservative Electrical & Musical Industries liked the company so much that it paid $8,300,000 for 96.4% of Capitol's stock...
Fortunately, the book is not composed exclusively of such circular efforts at conversion. For those already convinced that truth is so ephemeral that dissension is its worldly counterpart, and prepared, despite the lack of public support, to work for more rigorous training of young citizens, Dr. Conant offers a program. This program is first touched upon when he deals with the problem of technical training, and is more fully explored in the 'original' essay on the institutional structure of education...
Officialdumb. In Wellington, New Zealand, an irate housewife complained that she phoned the Department of Agriculture for help when her home was invaded by a buzzing swarm of wasps, was told that she would receive a circular on wasp control in the next mail...
...little more than a week later, on June 11, the Senior Class issued a circular containing its views on the rebellion. For their trouble, seven of the more active seniors "dismissed from College for an indefinite term; and prohibited from appearing in the town of Cambridge, or having any connection with it, untill after the first day of September next...