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...nonobjective drawing. It was in fact a picture of one of nature's innermost secrets. Made possible by use of California's new 6-ft. liquid hydrogen bubble chamber (TIME, July 13), it showed for the first time the birth, death and after effects of an anti-lambda particle...
...Lambda particles are short-lived packets of matter created when high-energy protons hit protons at rest. Since each particle is presumed to have its "anti" counterpart, scientists have long been looking for anti-lambda. Faint traces of the elusive particle showed last year on photographic plates exposed to the 6 billion-volt Berkeley Bevatron, but the plates were too small to tell much of the anti-lambda story...
...number had squeezed into one phone booth. Students in South Africa then pushed the number up to 25. Not to be outdone by foreigners, 32 students at Modesto Junior College, California, claimed to have crammed themselves into one booth. And, the following week, the Oklahoma City University chapter of Lambda Chi Alpha managed to jam 33 of its fraternity brothers into one booth before 1500 cheering witnesses...
...following announcement appeared in the Fall, 1953, issue of the bulletin of Phi Lambda Kappa, a medical fraternity...
SATURDAY NIGHT: Closed Parties: Alpha Delta Phi, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Delta Upsilon, Kappa Sigma, Phi Gamma Delta, Psi Upsilon, Sigma Chi, Zeta Psi, Hegeman E, South Hope, Marcy. Open Parties: Beta Theta Pi; Delta Phi (formal), Delta Tau Delta, Phi Delta Theta, Phi Kappa Psi, Pi Lambda Phi, Sigma Nu, Theta Delta Chi, Tower Club, Caswell (in Buxton Lounge), Wayland, Diman, Olney, North Hope (in Chapin Lounge...