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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scientifically, there is a related economy of energy to aerodynamics involved in the saucer; I refer you to the item on pages 413-414 of Astronomy and Cosmogony (the Cambridge University Press 1929) by Sir James Jeans. It might just be that the "disc" became so shaped only after rotating at a highly excessive speed, which you will find will occur to any oblate spheroid when a critical speed of rotation is reached...
Apples will be a staple item in Radcliffe dining halls for the next few weeks...
...itself submitted an item for inclusion in the Assembly's agenda called "The Question of Formosa," announced that it would invite the General Assembly to consider and settle "the future of Formosa" and of its nearly 8,000,000 inhabitants. The move was an unmistakable slap at the Nationalists (see box), gave aid & comfort to the Chinese Reds in their effort to get into...
...that the U.S. had to say was that it would not and could not undertake to defend France so long as Germany was defenseless. This week, at long last, Acheson was prepared to be firm. Ernest Bevin was ready to back him. To both of them, the most important item before the Foreign Ministers was how, when and with what Germany would be strengthened to become the bastion of a free Europe...
...laymen's worries, Dr. Arthur M. Master of Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital and Dr. Louis I. Dublin of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. asked themselves: How high is high blood pressure? To get the answer, they had to find out what is normal blood pressure-an item that a generation of researchers had failed to agree on. Dr. Dublin, aided by Statistician Herbert H. Marks, culled the health records of World War II workers at air bases and war plants, tabulated the blood pressure of 15,706 seemingly normal, healthy men & women from 16 to 65. They...