Word: lead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most important were two Geiger tubes, one of them unshielded, the other wrapped in sheet lead about ⅛ in. thick. Devised by Professor James Van Allen of State University of Iowa, they watched the double belt of radiation that bears Van Allen's name. The naked tube reported all radiation that hit it, while the shielded tube reported only radiation strong enough to penetrate its shield. By comparing the tubes' reports with each other, Van Allen hopes to learn more about the character and origin of the radiation belts...
...Hungarian-born Joseph Peter Vajk, 16, is news editor of the Princeton (N.J.) high school paper, and has a lead role in a school play. He won $3,000 with a paper theorizing that fallout will speed up human evolution...
Aside from Buick's decline and Pontiac's surge (Plymouth's drop was largely strike caused), the big car surprise of 1959 is the fast pace of the skillfully restyled Ford against the flashy new Chevy. With a strike at G.M. to give it an initial lead, Ford took off running, has sold something like 500,000 cars for the model year so far, and still leads by 30,000 units. Chevy is creeping up, but it will have to do better than February's slim margin to hold its 1958 title of No. 1 seller...
...cover himself, Lieberson pushed Columbia's lead in LP recordings, put out the recording of South Pacific that was a milestone in the popularity of recorded musicals. He expanded the recording frontier to include such non-musical offerings as the I Can Hear It Now series (more than 500,000 albums sold), founded the Columbia LP Record Club, the nation's first and now its biggest (more than 1,000,000 members) record club. When the stage production of My Fair Lady was searching for a backer, Lieberson persuaded Columbia Broadcasting System, owner of Columbia Records...
...trends-though he can sometimes prove hard of hearing. He thought rock 'n' roll was an undesirable and fleeting fad, refused to record the tunes till Columbia had lost millions of sales. As a result, RCA led Columbia last year in total sales because of its lead in 45-r.p.m. popular "singles...