Word: emilios
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...using the University of California's big new atom smasher at Berkeley, Physicists Emilio Segrè and Owen Chamberlain identified an elusive subatomic particle that had long been postulated but never found: the antiproton. Their discovery, honored four years later by a Nobel Prize, helped confirm the existence of "antimatter"-the strange substance that has many physical properties exactly opposite to those of "normal" matter. Now, to the astonishment of the scientific world, a fellow physicist has filed suit against Segrè and Chamberlain, accusing them of stealing a key idea that led to their significant discovery and Nobel...
...just as many a Victorian bronze looked better with a lampshade than as sculpture, the use of neon tubing becomes laconically appropriate in Ettore Sottsass's "Asteroid" lamp. What goes on with such designers is not a passive borrowing of fine-art motifs but, as Museum Curator Emilio Ambasz puts it, an "ironic manipulation of the sociocultural meanings attached to existing forms...
...Designer Emilio Pucci, who is as earnest about politics as he is about fashion, lost his Liberal seat in the Chamber of Deputies in spite of a campaign in which he averaged four speeches a day. Communist Novelist-Painter Carlo Levi (Christ Stopped at Eboli) was dropped from the Senate. On the other hand, Franco Maria Malfatti, a former president of the Common Market Commission, was easily re-elected a Christian Democratic Deputy. Admiral Gino Birindelli, until recently commander of NATO's Mediterranean naval forces and now the darling of Italy's right, also won a seat...
...inexpensive and that video theaters and festivals are springing up around the country. Popular reception of the new medium as presented in theaters has been encouragingly enthusiastic; the original Groove Tube ran three years in New York before opening for a long run at Boston's Video Theater. Millhouse, Emilio de Antonio's video production, enjoyed considerable success, probably reaching a broader age group then is likely to patronize Groove Tube...
...growth, and the generals brought in as Finance Minister Antonio Delfim Netto, a brilliant, bullying Sao Paulo State finance secretary and former economics professor. Delfim has been given a free hand in running the economy and now, at 43, is the second most powerful man in Brazil, after President Emilio Garrastazu Medici...