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Other points of interest during the term included the opening of the $11.5 Cambridge Electron Accelerator. whose main component is a doughnut-shaped piece of machinery 240 feet in diameter. The Atomic Energy Commission financed a large portion of the work, along with Harvard and several other participating Boston Universities. Miss Sweden paid Cambridge a visit, and ended up on a date with one of the undergraduates, Jim Ullyot. And Harvard and Radcliffe continue their gradual merger. There were two key steps: First, the Radcliffe Graduate School of Arts and Sciences was absorbed into the Harvard GSAS, Second, though...
Observed by radio waves instead of light waves. Jupiter does not look round. It appears to be an oval object more than three times as long as it is broad. This is the same shape as the doughnut-like Van Allen belt of charged particles that have been trapped by the earth's magnetic field, and Morris and Berge concluded that Jupiter also has a magnetic halo that captures charged particles thrown from the sun. As they whirl around the planet at nearly the speed of light, the particles in Jupiter's halo give off radiation...
Moving Core. After keeping a radio watch on Jupiter for months. Morris and Berge calculated that its Van Allen belt is a doughnut 300,000 miles in diameter and 80,000 miles thick. It is several times as radioactive as the earth's and is held in place over the planet's magnetic equator by a magnetic field that must be several times stronger than the earth's. Since the earth's magnetic field is believed to be formed by the motion of its metallic core, and since Jupiter proved to be surrounded by magnetism...
...spaceship from earth ever cruises behind the dark side of Jupiter (never less than 460 million miles away), the crew may see a ring drawn around its darkened magnetic pole in brilliant auroral light. That bright target will illuminate the safest landing spot, the hole in the doughnut, where the explorers will be able to set down (if Jupiter has any solid surface at all) without passing through the Van Allen belt's hot and dangerous webs of energy...
...romantic leads are just as good. Liz Fillo (Babe) and Jack Bates (Sid) have charming voices (yeah, I'm running out of adjectives): Miss Fillo, in "There Once Was A Man" is a lover for all times, and Mr. Bates can make even a doughnut song like "New Town" sound as if it were worth listening...