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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Attending a golden anniversary meeting of Old Settlers in the booming city of Tempe, Ariz. (pop. 16,900), Arizona's long-settled Democratic Senator Carl Hayden, 82, born in an Arizona hamlet once known as Hay den's Ferry (so dubbed after his father and now called Tempe), gave the youngsters in their '50s and his contemporaries some earthy advice: "Believe me, I don't take my work to bed with me. I always figured you couldn't solve any problems between the sheets...
While Britain's postwar generation of Angry Young Men lash themselves into a low-powered tantrum over the grubby, provincial world they have inherited in the Brave New World of socialism, a group of young realist painters, known as the "Kitchen-Sinkers," celebrate with gusto the seamy world of cluttered kitchen tables precisely because it is "common to everyone." It is a world in which the plumber is hero, being both "a craftsman and a necessity." A good part of the Kitchen-Sink work looks as if a plumber could have painted it, including some still lifes that focus...
Light in the Darkness. Nurserymen have known since 1920 that certain plants could be made to bloom earlier than usual by shading them with opaque cloth for part of each day. Guess was that something in the plant's internal mechanism recorded the smaller amount of sunlight, signaled the plant that the days had shortened, that colder weather was approaching, and that it had better flower fast. But botanists were unable to identify the day-measuring mechanism or explain how it worked...
...Tower (984 ft.). With their flanking arrays of twelve smaller masts, each complex occupies the ground space of eleven Pentagons. Operating at 2,000,000 watts, the station will be 40 times more powerful than the biggest commercial stations and three times more powerful than the mightiest military transmitters known to exist in the U.S. or the Soviet Union...
With different enzymes from different bacterial cells, Kornberg used methods outwardly similar to Ochoa's in synthesizing a form of DNA in 1957. Chemically and physically, it behaves like a natural DNA; whether it contains a vital spark is not yet known...