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Last week, in the British publication, Nature, Florida State University Physicist Philip J. Wyatt suggested one possible clue: "Of the many craters on the earth known to have been produced by fallen meteors, a few have left no signs of the meteor which caused them, apart from the huge holes created in the earth's crust." Could antimatter possibly have been involved? If so, says Wyatt, "no traces of the meteors would remain, due to the annihilation process." Best example is the huge meteor that blazed over southern Russia on the morning of June 30, 1908. Minutes later...
...cheering note for J. & L. President Avery C. Adams, along with other steelmakers, is that the hundreds of millions of dollars which they have poured into new plants and equipment are beginning to pay off in greater efficiency. Adams told stockholders that J. & L. can soon break even when operating at only 44% of capacity. Operating at only 50% of capacity, J. & L. could make $1.35-a-share profit...
...J. Reynolds Tobacco...
...Enemy Below. A DE (Robert Mitchum) and a U-boat (Curt Jürgens) tangle in a running fracas that is sharply directed by Dick Powell (TIME...
...operations committee, Foote will concentrate on creative advertising and marketing. ¶Robert Paxton, 56, was elected president of General Electric Co., biggest electrical manufacturer in the world (1957 sales: $4,335,664,061). Paxton, a Scottish-born, U.S.-educated (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1923) engineer, moved up as President Ralph J. Cordiner, who will continue as chief executive officer, was elected board chairman to succeed Philip D. Reed, who retired...