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...second roadblock was thrown up during the maneuvering over Arkansas Democrat J. William Fulbright's Community Facilities Bill to provide long-term (50 years) public-works loans to small cities with low credit ratings. Fortnight ago, Republicans on Fulbright's Banking and Currency Committee (joined by Democrats Paul Douglas of Illinois, Allen Frear Jr. of Delaware and Willis Robertson of Virginia) trimmed the bill's total from $2 billion to $1 billion, upped the proposed interest rate from...
Last week the Brigham physicians were still faced with the task of offsetting the radiation destruction of both white and red corpuscles, still listed Mrs. Lowman's condition as ''critical." They were unwilling to comment in any way on their achievement. But it was a fortnight after the operation, and the patient was still alive. Moreover, use of the artificial kidney was gradually being eased, and there were hopeful signs that the transplanted kidney was beginning to function...
With a sense of pride and no little awe at the crunching majority they had voted Prime Minister John Diefenbaker's Progressive Conservative Party in the national elections fortnight ago (TIME, April 14), Canadians sat back last week to see what Diefenbaker would do with...
...great bevatron at Berkeley creates antiprotons (protons with negative charges, in fair quantities. When they hit particles of ordinary matter-protons, neutrons, etc.-they generally annihilate themselves and their targets, both turning into weightless energy and neutrinos. About a fortnight ago an antiproton observed by Dr. Segrè and Dr. Wilson M. Powell behaved differently. It entered Dr. Segrè's bubble chamber, which is filled with liquid propane on the point of boiling, and made its normal, slightly curving trail of tiny bubbles (see cut). Suddenly the trail stopped, and a "star" of four diverging bubble trails appeared...
...Goose can be fitted with radar reflectors to make it resemble almost any craft including a B-52 Stratofortress or a B58 Hustler, thus decoy enemy defense away from the real bombers. The Goose will have a lightweight, 2,000-lb.-thrust J83 engine, also a Fairchild development. Fortnight ago the J83 passed its Air Force qualification test, and now the Goose is ready for a production contract that the Air Force will only say will amount to "many millions." Nor is the Goose the only fowl in Fairchild's nest...