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...sources are made by "cooking" cobalt or tantalum tubes (13½ in. long) in Brookhaven's nuclear reactor at Upton, N.Y. There the original metals turn into cobalt-60 and tantalum-182, both of which emit gamma rays with more than 1,000,000 electron volts of energy...
...brick Gamma Phi Beta sorority house on Hilyard Street is one of the handsomest at the University of Oregon. Strategically surrounded by fraternities, its green lawn slopes away to a mill race that meanders through the campus. One morning last month, sorority row was alive with the news that the Gamma Phi lawn had been desecrated by a seven-foot fiery cross. Sorority members vowed they didn't know who had brought the Ku Klux symbol, but they knew why. One of their sisters, Sophomore Debbie Burgess of Astoria, had been dating a Negro, DeNorval Unthank of Portland...
Last week the Gamma Phis yielded, let it be known that Debbie would be welcomed back among her sisters, whether she stopped seeing DeNorval or not. But Debbie, who still dates DeNorval, likes it where she is, and will probably finish out the term in a college dormitory. Said she: "I wouldn't feel right about moving back in after what the sorority has done...
First Seconds. A few hundred seconds after the great event, say Alpher & Herman, when the universe was filled with a gas made of protons, neutrons and smaller sub-atomic particles, its temperature was about i billion degrees, and through it shot violent gamma rays. At this point, the collisions among the particles and gamma rays were too powerful to allow any of the particles to join together into atomic nuclei...
Friends in Seattle remember Betty Graham as a slender, doe-eyed girl with a "restless mind." Majoring in psychology at the University of Washington, she was a topflight student and a Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority member with a normal interest in fun and parties. But she had no time for a steady boy friend or the small college talk of her friends; to her friends she seemed to be seeking a more intellectual interest...