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Street has done important research on cosmic rays, on devices for detecting atomic particles, and on radar circuits. During World War II, he helped develop radio navigation and ground and ship radar in M.I.T.'s Radiation Laboratory
...World War II ground to a halt, the Red armies and the Kremlin's commissars swept into Eastern Europe from the Baltic to the Black Sea, gobbled up half a continent and more than 100 million people. This week, 21 years and a new generation later, TIME takes its readers behind the no-longer-so-impenetrable Iron Curtain for a revealing appraisal in word and picture of what the years have wrought in the four major and strikingly diverse countries of the area: Rumania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Poland...
Speaking of the extremes a team will go to win, he cited the "two World Series of 1965" one in Los Angeles with a cinder-block infield, enabling ground balls to get through and the Dodgers' speedy runners to make use of their talent, and one in. Minnesota with a sandy, sloping infield which slows runners and ruins good bunts...
...view your editorial was off base in its consideration of the propriety of unions in educational disputes. Your first ground for opposition to teacher unions is weak indeed, for it rests on the fact that a body of labor relations machinery institutionalized in law has not touched for the most part educational and non-profit institutions such as St. John's. The labor movement which is now surrounded by laws with respect to its activity in industry and business, had to struggle for decades before laws were passed. It is a mark of backwardness that the educational sons such...
From the outset, the project has been plagued by headaches that would have strained the patience of Penelope. It took two years, for example, to assemble the site, and then the ground turned out to be full of archaeological treasures, whose salvage slowed construction. "In Greece," says General Manager Paul Lugagne Delpon, "you can't destroy a church, even if it's already destroyed." Tricky renegotiations over the price of electricity with three successive governments are only now nearing conclusion, with the company likely to wind up paying as much as $1,500,000 a year more...