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Some time in March, in a chamber 400 feet below the tip of the Great Pyramid of Cheops, Egyptian and American scientists will set up a spark chamber to detect a component of cos mic rays called muons. Actually sub atomic particles traveling close to the speed of light, some of the muons will be energetic enough to penetrate the dense structure of the pyramid and pass through the spark chamber, a device consisting of two horizontal pairs of oppositely charged metal plates. Be cause the muon leaves a wake of ionized gas, which conducts electricity, a spark will jump...
...Thus constantly replenished by water from below, the surface is kept above the freezing point, even when the ice nearby is seven inches thick The system, which had been tried experimentally by the Navy, was first used commercially as far back as 1958 by the Harbor Marine Center in Cos Cob, Conn., initially just to keep ice from accumulating around the dock pilings. By chance, a few boats were left in the water and survived the winter in excellent condition...
Bubble baths are so simple that one can even be installed for a lone boat at a private dock (cost: $250). But it is most popular in marinas. This winter the Cos Cob boatyard will keep 80 boats in the water, and Manager Michael Brown expects the number to double again in 1967-68. The one Chicago marina to try it is full to capacity. Ted Fischer, president of the Northport Marina on Long Island installed a bubble system two years ago, now has 75 boats lined up to float until spring...
...headaches con fronting officials in Manila is the pothole problem. Even the city's biggest thoroughfares are pocked with holes that resemble shell craters, and Filipino cartoonists are having a field day depicting delegates stranded in the concrete cavities while bulletins whiz over their heads. President Ferdinand Mar cos has made $190,000 available for a quick cosmetic job on the major arteries...
From the eddying hues of his scenes done in Yellowstone Park to the evanescent brush strokes of the glades near his Cos Cob, Conn., farm, there is more quiet transparency than passion. Twachtman collected Chinese paintings, and their gentle influence shows. His scenes (see color page) are stripped down to Mondrianesque simplicity yet they stand at symphonic distance from the Dutch abstractionist's boogie-woogie colors. Twachtman's task was to portray tranquillity in nature almost at her vanishing point...