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Mercurial Change. To build so perfect a gyroscope, Stanford Physicists William Fairbank and Francis Everitt will use a sphere of quartz coated with niobium, a metal that becomes a superconductor and shows no resistance to electric current when cooled to extremely low temperatures. The sphere will be placed inside an evacuated quartz shell, also coated with niobium, and suspended in an electrostatic field. Suspending it in this manner will allow it to spin in a near-perfect vacuum without touching anything; it will be free from all friction. The gyroscope container will be kept in a bath of liquid helium...
Peizel could not speculate on what Reischauer's duties would be if he were here next year. He has taught several courses in Japanese, history and languages. Along with John K. Fairbank '29, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, he originated a taught...
Today former State Department official Owen Lattimore and John K. Fairbank '29, Francis Leo Higginson Professor of History, will discuss highlights of recent Chinese history. Morton H. Halperin, assistant professor of Government, will speak this afternoon on Chinese foreign policy, and be followed by a four-man panel discussion of Chinese policy toward specific nations...
Sunday the conference will close with a discussion between Fairbank and former U.S. Ambassador to Thailand, Kenneth Young '39, on "China, the U.S., and World Peace...
...Harvard-Radcliffe International Relations Council will sponsor a China Conference this weekend Registration will be from 3 to 6:30 pm today, at the Hotel Continental and from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m., Saturday, at PBH. Speakers for Saturday and Sunday include John K. Fairbank, Director of the East Asian Research Center, Benjamin I. Schwartz '38, professor of government and history, and Owen Lattimore, professor of Chinese studies at the University of Leeds, England...