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...months later, however, in the midst of the general student strike, the Rosovsky Report became the focal point of a bitter confrontation between the administration and AAAAS...
...houses. Anchored against a reinforced concrete office and laboratory building, the huge concave mirror consists of 8,570 individual reflectors. For the furnace to operate efficiently, these small (18 inches square) mirrors must be precisely adjusted so that their light will converge exactly at the parabola's focal point 59 ft. in front of the giant reflector. Only half of the mirrors have been aligned thus far, although the structure has been finished for more than a year. Reason: the work is so delicate that technicians can usually adjust no more than a few dozen even on the sunniest...
Rotating Vats. The crucible of the furnace is located inside a smaller f-shaped building near the base of the big mirror. It is set behind large stainless-steel doors at the focal point of the parabola-where the sun's scorching rays are concentrated into a blazing circle only twelve inches wide. Target material, hoisted into place by a ten-ton lift, is placed into an inclined trough-as the target melts, it runs off into catch pans. Another, more sophisticated technique is to load the material into two aluminum vats whose outer walls are water-cooled...
...These telegram stations have been vital not only in sending telegrams." said Elaine Sherman at the M.I.T. regional strike headquarters, "but also have served as the focal point for public discussions...
INGREECE, as in America, trials are becoming a major political focal point. In both countries, people have been convicted without recourse to any serious defense. In Greece, however, they have even dispensed with the legal trappings. Thirty-four people were tried and convicted for jail sentences in spite of the public declarations of ten that their confessions had been extracted by torture. In another important trial, five editors of a most resistant newspaper. Ethnos, were sentenced to jail on April 2 for printing an interview calling for a return to democracy. The fines were such that the paper, whose circulation...