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Looking around for a better measuring stick, scientists found that quartz can be made to vibrate electrically at very constant frequency. A quartz disk will keep time for short periods with the accuracy of one part in 10 billion (the equivalent of a one-second error in 300 years). But after a week or so, quartz changes its frequency in an unpredictable...
Before a beginners' physics class at St. Louis' Washington University, Assistant Professor Edward Lambe plugged in an electric device that shot pennies at a metal disk a few feet away. The pennies scattered off the disk in a significant pattern, but Lambe was not using them to demonstrate the elasticity of metals, Newton's laws of motion, or anything else in classical physics. His penny routine was part of a discussion of what happens when alpha particles (helium nuclei) are shot at heavy atoms such as gold...
Market Survey. In Detroit, sentenced to 30 days in jail for stealing a $5 rock-'n'-roll disk from a record shop, Earl Pearson explained: "I lifted a classical record from that same shop a couple of days ago. But I couldn't sell it on Skid Row. Everybody wanted rock 'n' roll...
Perhaps he does. But Khrushchev also sometimes resembles a garrulous all-night disk jockey who does not expect his every word to be remembered and held against him. When Foreign Minister Pella reproached him afterwards for his conduct, Khrushchev shrugged: "Maybe you're right. But that's how I am." Taking hold of Gronchi's hand he asked: "You weren't at all offended by what I said, were...
...superiors, but without a word to Jack Paar, the tape cutters started snipping. When the show went on the air, the Wayside Chapel, the water closet and Narrator Paar were replaced by a news broadcast. But what followed made all other news - even wine, women, and cash for disk jockeys, even the French atomic blast in the Sahara -seem insignificant on Page...