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Electromagnetic Ballast. The Trieste's vertical movements are controlled just like a balloon's. To descend, it releases gasoline, which makes it heavier in the water. To rise it drops ballast. The Trieste's ballast is four tons of iron filings stowed in containers in the floater. Electromagnets, which make iron filings stick together, keep the ballast from moving. When their current is cut off, the filings flow into the sea. This system "fails safe." If anything happens to the ship's power supply, the ballast is dropped automatically. Then the Trieste, lightened, will rise...
...been no trouble at all; the Trieste had functioned perfectly. She had snuggled down on the sea bottom (where the pressure was about 500 lbs. per square inch) "as on a soft wadding." The result, said Piccard, "is what he had foreseen. It is possible for man to descend into the sea depths using means created by him. The problem is to overcome physical obstacles by using physical principles." He had not felt, he made clear, that he was running much risk. "Everyone," he remarked, "is in the habit of trusting a railway bridge. We trust the eternal laws...
...Aristides in the Just. A committee was charged to find, "with as little delay as possible," a suitable statue. A short two years later they reported success and now the statues stand guard at each end of the green. In past days, Italians from the North End would descend once a year upon the Square to crown Columbus with a wreath. Not to be out-done, the M.I.T. students, who had a club house at 6 Louisburg Square, trussed Aristides up in a cup and gown. The Association took a dim view of Aristides' garb. Now the green is fenced...
Fifty girls from a physics class at Smith College will descend on Harvard today to inspect the University's cyclotron. They will be in Cambridge for the day, accompanied by their physics professor, and will also visit M.I.T. briefly...
...tutorial system at Leverett works ideally for those who want it. One-time Brown football great Arnold M. Soloway, Leverett's Burr Senior Tutor, has made a host of friends, but he will not descend on those who prefer to limit their acquaintaince with him to more decanal occasions...