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Bill Saltonstall, John Deknatel, Hanson Robbins, and Tom Townsen will skipper the Crimson craft against M.I.T., Bowdoin, and Boston University at 10 a.m. this morning in the Geiger Trophy contest...
Prospects are excellent for the Crimson sailing team today in both the Geiger Trophy Race at M.I.T. and the Raven Heptagonals at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy at New London, Conn...
...trying to induce cancer in mice by injecting them with carcinogens. With the help of Mary McCarthy, 17, Bill Tippie, 18, is building a binary-notation digital computer which will solve problems fed into it by a telephone dial. Allen Womack, 14, is working on his own Geiger counter that he describes as "an analytical count-rate meter for nuclear disintegration...
Clicking like a Geiger counter from his own political H-bomb test, toughened by 2½ months of speeches, missed meals and one-night stands, striking out on his own after listening overlong to his managers, harried but gentle, angry but optimistic, Adlai Stevenson plunged last week into the homestretch of the 1956 campaign...
After their political Geiger counter had picked up the clicks from last week's local elections across the U.S., the national chairmen of the Democratic and Republican Parties were ready with separate and distinct analyses. Glowed Democrat Paul Butler: "After making full allowance for local factors, there is no doubt that this has national significance. The vote yesterday was clearly a further vote of confidence in the Democratic Party." Grumped Republican Leonard Hall: "Tuesday's elections had no national significance. It is a mistake to read a national trend into these local elections in an off year...