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Sound & Fury. Using 700-ton magnets, Harvard's cyclotron fires a proton beam with the force of 160 million electron volts. But after leaving the cyclotron, the protons travel a precise and predictable distance before they release their power. Careful positioning of the patient allows the beam to pierce the skin with little damage before releasing all its energy and destroying a specific target deep inside the body-such as the pituitary gland, perhaps, or a brain tumor...
There is, however, no one person who can do all that Davis does, and nothing, outside of a cyclotron, that can perform with his limitless vigor. While he has been appearing on Broadway in Golden Boy, he has also found time to campaign for John Lindsay for mayor of New York, propel his autobiography, Yes I Can, to the bestseller list, do guest shots on the Johnny Carson program, tape three TV specials, and make plans to shoot a full-length film, Adam, this winter. In his spare time, he netted a million-dollar deal for four two-week nightclub...
...Charles J. Gallagher Jr., 31, a Columbia University assistant professor of nuclear physics, left his wife and two sons in their Manhattan apartment one night after a colleague phoned to say that a cyclotron at Columbia wasn't working right. Gallagher never arrived at the laboratory. At dawn the next morning, a man found Gallagher's body -shot once in the chest with a .25-cal. weapon-lying beneath the underbrush in a section of Central Park called the Ramble. Gallagher had not been robbed; he had no criminal record; he had no access to any classified nuclear...
...students in 118 fields, from art to range management to thermodynamics. A thriving new engineering college is keyed to California's thriving aerospace industry. By 1965, Davis will boast the world's largest colony of subhuman primates (10,000 animals for biomedical research) and a Big Science cyclotron costing $2,257,000. By 1970, it expects to have law and medical schools...
Part of the building will be equipped for treatment of patients with brain tumors, diabetic eye damage, Parkinson's disease, and breast cancer. Beams of atomic particles from the adjacent 160 million volt electron cyclotron will improve upon the traditional X-ray for treatment of localized tumors...