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Second baseman Chuck Schilling was having his troubles at the plate earlier in the season, but his two hits yesterday raised his average to a respectable .140. Other current marks are Frank Malzone .295, Carl Yastrsemski .267, Gary Geiger .222, and Pete Runnels .220. Judging from past performances, Runnels can be expected to improve some 80 points, but the much-ballyhooed "Yaz" still looks like a lot of other .260 hitters...
...European airplanes, particularly high-flying jetliners, have been bringing home unwanted cargoes of radioactivity. Such hot cargo was a recognized problem in the late 19505, but during the nuclear-test moratorium that began in 1958, the radiation level of the high atmosphere gradually decreased, and most airlines stowed their Geiger counters in mothballs. Recent Soviet tests have started the trouble all over again, and this time it is expected to grow worse and last longer. Jetliners of the 19605 fly well up in the stratosphere, where radioactive fission products linger for years...
Died. Wallace Geiger, 59, Iowa merchant and husband of investment-minded Bookkeeper Burnice Geiger, who last February was sentenced to 15 years in prison after embezzling $2,155,000 from Iowa's Sheldon National Bank (of which her father was president and her husband a director); of an asthmatic condition; in Sheldon...
...fourth element maker, Albert Ghiorso, 45, has a Berkeley B.S. in electrical engineering, but he got into longhair physics by a back door. Son of a Vallejo, Calif, riveter, he went to work for a local electronics manufacturer and designed a successful commercial Geiger counter. While selling and servicing his product, he came in contact with the Radiation Lab, was fascinated, and got a job there. Working with top scientists, Ghiorso listened hard, and in the informal classroom he absorbed a higher education in higher physics. "I grew up with atomic energy," he says lightly...
...miniature, transistorized Geiger counter with works slightly less complicated than the average pocket radio, the personal monitor has no switch; it is on all the time. Its tiny mercury battery is good for a month of steady operation. Now properly equipped workers will no longer have to take time off to read a meter or check a counter. Their personal monitor will give them the word. "It is intended to tell lab personnel whenever there has been a change of radiation level," says an Oak Ridge scientist. The workers put it more succinctly: "It tells us when to run like...