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...Sherwood who suggested in 1955 that his compulsively talking, ever-quipping wife try for an audition as a comedienne at San Francisco's Purple On ion. She ran 89 weeks. Warm, friendly and modest about everything but her jokes, Mrs. Diller is one successful per former who finds it easy to believe what is happening to her. "The older I get, the funnier I get," she says. "Think what I'll save in not having my face lifted...
About the closest anyone ever comes to denning adult education is to call it a "continuing process." At Manhattan's progressive New School for Social Research, long (41 years) a magnet for adults with time on their hands, the process continued last week in wondrous fash ion. Sample courses (total: 400) from the New School's catena!! fall bulletin...
...Russian space scientists reasoned that any gas outside the earth's atmosphere would be ionized-broken into electrically charged particles-by the sun's radiation. So they furnished their space probes with ion traps: simple instruments that give electrical signals whenever a charged particle hits them. The Soviet moon probe launched on Sept. 12, 1959 carried four traps adjusted to respond to ions of different energies, and it telemetered 12,000 measurements back to the earth...
...fill their quotas under the inter national tin agreement even though they employ more men than ever. In his victory statement Paz Estenssoro called for "revolutionary order." But his incoming Vice President and revolutionary comrade, Juan Lechin, the Lebanese-descended onetime auto salesman who bosses the miners' un ion, will stand squarely in his way; Union Boss Lechin opposes firing unnecessary workers or demanding more production. Sooner or later, if he is to achieve his aims, Paz Estenssoro will presumably have to clash with Lechin - and Lechin has be hind him the miners' militia, the country...
...farm, 4 miles outside of St. James, Minn. (pop. 5,005). Last week, in a field of 29,000 bright high school seniors from every state in the Union, Jerry walked off with the top $7,500 award in the annual Westinghouse Science Talent Search. His winning project: an ion accelerator made of such handy items as a Christmas-tree ornament and a float from a pig watering trough...