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...Naval Research Laboratory in Washington was far out of line. Their task: to make a gun that could be fired point-blank inside the human head-not to kill but to save. The unusual technical feat required even more unusual ammunition: a piece of hair only one two-hundredth of an inch in diameter and one-fourth of an inch long, which had to pierce something even less resistant than a toy balloon, and do it with such delicate force that it would not come out the other side...
...Little Russia" by its occupants-street cleaners, ditchdiggers and the like, who earn as little as 60? a day and live in a smelly maze of shacks. Beyond, in the open country, are the peasants who work the huge holdings of absentee landlords for a pittance; in Spain, one-hundredth of the population still owns half of the land. Five million Spanish peasants use no mechanized farm tools at all; as they helped bring in the harvest last week, they had, as the Spanish saying goes, "only their hands." Spain's per capita income is the second lowest, next...
Vassar College commissioned the composer and librettist, both members of its faculty, to create Command Performance to celebrate the college's hundredth anniversary. Command Performance is, as intended, "a new musical and dramatic work of major proportions," replete with operatic poses. Its singers deliver love duets into empty space. Its music appeals and its ending is happy. As a dramatic production it never bogs down. It is smooth and polished, though hardly profound...
Something for the Boilers. Prince's researchers started off from a long-established fact: when it is chilled to -258° F., methane "freezes" into a liquid that occupies only one six-hundredth as much space as methane gas. A Moscow utility plant has for years "frozen" methane to store for peak consumption periods. But no one knew a safe and inexpensive way of keeping methane at such a low temperature while it was being shipped. To solve the transportation problem, Prince pooled resources with Continental Oil Co. and later with Royal Dutch/Shell in a combine called Conch International...
...Class of 1911 had entered Harvard on the three-hundredth anniversary of the birth of its founder and one of the events of the year was the celebration of John Harvard's tercentenary...