Word: held
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...something of a Jules Verne story." Now he sees it as "a new type of mining." Indications last week were that the project is progressing. At the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission's Oak Ridge installation, tar sands were being tested to see whether the radioactivity will be held safely underground. The U.S. will probably agree to provide A-bombs for Canada to push the experiment...
Biggest problem remains how to contain the reacting material (usually deuterium), since the star-hot temperatures generated by fusion would melt any known substance. Physicists have tried magnetic bottles, in which the particles are forced together by powerful magnetic fields and held there without touching the walls of the apparatus. But present magnetic bottles are unstable. They bulge and flutter, permitting their contents to escape. More current would produce stronger magnetism. But if coils are fed too much current, they get too hot and melt...
...professionals on the scene in Cuba distinguished themselves with colorful yet thoughtful reporting that gave the reader a sound base for judgment. One was Scripps-Howard's Andrew Tully, who wrote of the Sports Palace trial of a Batista army officer: "The American Bar Association would have held up its hands in horror. For it was, largely, a spectacle -a circus-in which the accused was considered guilty and was dared to try to prove his innocence...
...Miserable Years." Feiffer was born in The Bronx, and has never got over it. ("The place I grew up in didn't even have the dignity to be a slum.") His father held a variety of jobs, from dental technician to salesman; his mother was a fashion designer. Like his characters, Feiffer suffered many childhood frustrations. (''Echoes of my childhood keep creeping into my work. I'm sneaky-I hide behind my pictures.") In 1946 he got out of James Monroe High School to discover that he lacked half a credit to get into college...
Richard M. Koch '61, of Kirkland House and Haven, Kan., has been awarded the Jacob Wendell Scholarship, Dean Von Stade announced recently. The prize is given annually to the sophomore judged the most promising scholar of his class. A dinner for the recipient, attended by former Wendell Scholars, is held in Boston each year by the Wendell family...