Word: labs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Enter FSAgent McCloskey (Edmond O'Brien), a sort of secret inoperative who growls all the right things ("Send this to the lab-and tell them to rush it ... There will be NO slipups!"), does all the wrong things, and spends his spare time staring wide-eyed at the cops-and-robbers shows on TV. Since McCloskey has never caught anything more elusive than a cold, it's a cinch he can't catch Lyrae, who has been sent from a friendly planet to correct a defect in the moon rocket. Alas, such is interplanetary life, she falls...
Blue Puff. Physicist Kiyo Tomiyasu, 42, technical director of General Electric Co.'s laser lab, is particularly proud of the ease with which one of his lasers has drilled holes in a pea-sized black synthetic diamond. Diamonds, which are the hard est things known to man, have been drilled before, but the process is difficult and time consuming. Dr. Tomiyasu (Nevada-born; Harvard doctorate) did the job on his diamond with laser light. Each hole was drilled by a flash that lasted only one two-thousandth of a second. Pinpointed by a lens on the crystallized carbon...
Enders received a M.A. in English from Harvard in 1922, but entered the field of medical microbiology in 1927. For over 15 years he worked in the lab of Hans Zinsser, bacteriologist at the Medical School, who had influenced him to switch fields...
Students too seemed sure that it was "an inside job." The flasks were being stored on a fairly obscure roof facing the back of Mallinckrodt, reached only by crawling through a window from the chemistry lab. "Someone had to know they were there," hinted a girl student dramatically...
Course instructors first announced the loss in lecture yesterday, requesting any student who knew something about the flask to report it. It has not been officially decided what the students involved will be asked to do about the experiment. Lab men said informally that they doubted students would be asked to begin again, however...