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...CHARLES TOWNES, 53, of the University of California at Berkeley, is the inventor of the laser. His area of study is to determine what should come after the Apollo program. His ideas will be coordinated with those of DR. HORTON GUYFORD STEVER, 52, president of the Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, who will look at the whole field of science policy...
...during re-entry-was not realized. As Apollo's cabin pressure was raised from the 5.3 Ibs. per sq. in. maintained during space flight to sea-level pressure of 14.7 p.s.i., the astronauts protected their ears by removing their helmets and performing the "Valsalva maneuver" (named for its inventor, the 18th century Italian anatomist Antonio Valsalva). Holding their noses, closing their mouths and trying vigorously to exhale through their nostrils, they forced air through their clogged Eustachian tubes to keep the pressure in their middle ears equal to the increasing cabin pressure. The tactic worked perfectly, preventing pain...
...RICH CRITICAL Prose"--like Berryman, I, too, dislike it. But this once I am writing because John Berryman, that mad and beloved poet, that heroic neurotic and bearded inventor of terminal diseases, has written an hilarious, pathetic, beautiful book: His Toy, His Dream, His Rest...
Died. Chester Carlson, 62, inventor of xerography, the dry-copying process that changed the routine in countless offices; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. In 1934, Carlson, a physicist in a New York electrical firm, became so frustrated over the lack of copies of documents that he decided to do something about it. He worked four years to develop an electrostatic copying process, which has since become Xerox, an $800 million-a-year firm whose growth gave Carlson a fortune estimated at more than $150 million...
Every Effort. A Congress notably wary of any kind of spending seemed utterly uninterested in the welfare of the retired inventor. Now 69, he has been living in Yuma, Ariz., primarily on social security payments. Then last month, in a surprising paroxysm of activity, Congress passed a bill appropriating his money. After paying his lawyer and splitting with his fellow plaintiffs, Adams and his wife received $517,442.92. Said Bert: "It doesn't mean a thing, really, except that it was right for it to come out this way. What's a man my age going...