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...contention disputed by Ball-makers A. G. Spalding & Bros., which has ordered a resiliency test to settle the matter once and for all. Craftier amateur physicists attribute the fence-busting to the fact that sluggers have shifted from the 52-oz. sledge hammer Babe Ruth once wielded to lighter. 30-to 32-oz. bats that whip the ball like a golf driver. Last week Dave Grote, National League pressagent who has been thinking about it. offered still another theory: today's hitters hit more homers because they are bigger, stronger...
...bits of a "lost planet" that revolved in an orbit between Mars and Jupiter. For some reason, it broke up and filled the solar system with large and small debris. Nickel-iron meteorites are thought to be fragments of its dense interior, while stony meteorites are made of lighter material from near the planet's surface...
...BEER will be marketed by Anheuser-Busch as competition for fast-growing local brews (80% of 1955 market), to replace the unsuccessful "Busch Lager." Called "Busch Bavarian," new beer will be lighter, less tangy than Budweiser, cost 5? less per bottle...
...France by ocean liner, Expatriate Coward gazed fondly through a porthole when his ship put in at Plymouth. "Ah, this beautiful England!" sighed he. "One step on dear old England for me now and it's ?25,000 gone bang." Then, heart heavy but his bank account no lighter, he sailed on to France...
...Cambridge Electron Accelerator will not be as powerful as the proton synchrotron (25 billion to 30 billion electron volts) that is being built at Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York, but the electrons that emerge from it will be the fastest particles created by man. Since electrons are much lighter than protons (the mass of one proton equals 1,837 electrons), they must speed much faster than protons to pack the same punch...