Word: ethereal
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...face, vitiligo sometimes produces a mottled, owlish visage. Victims usually cover the splotches with makeup or, in desperation, resort to tattooing-which rarely helps. Georgetown University's Dr. Robert Stolar last week announced that he got dramatic results from treating vitiliginous Negroes with a drug called monobenzyl ether of hydroquinone (MBEHQ). The drug's effect; it turns Negro skin white...
...bottle. The radiation had no observable effect on the bubbles that burst out of the bottle, but Glaser was not discouraged. Working with almost no funds or encouragement, he built his first successful bubble chamber in 1953. It was half an inch in diameter and was filled with ether. "Ether is cheap," explains Glaser, "and I could get it at the chemistry store without any red tape...
...assisted by John Cedarholm of International Business Machines, Dr. Townes set up his ether-hunting apparatus in IBM's Watson Laboratory at Columbia. Two masers were arranged so that they shot their microwaves in opposite directions. As the masers (and the lab) swung with the turning earth to align the waves first with the direction of the earth's motion around the sun and then against it, any ether wind should have shown as an easily detected difference of frequency. But the recording pen never wavered...
...eliminate all possible chance for error, the tests were repeated for a year while the earth completed a trip around its orbit. This allowed for the slight possibility that motion of the solar system as a whole might somehow mask the effect of an ether wind. Still the masers showed no change of frequency...
Last week Professor Townes was satisfied. He announced that his apparatus could easily have detected an ether effect even if the earth were moving on its orbit at only one-thousandth the speed it actually travels. Relativity, he concluded, is on firm ground...