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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...short (5 ft. 4 in.), white-haired professor perched on a small stool, his feet hooked in the lower rung, his hands extracting scrawled lecture notes from a manila envelope. Isidor Isaac Rabi (rhymes with Bobby) gazed stolidly up at his 30 selected students in Columbia University's tiered, 286-seat Pupin physics lecture hall. His eyes suddenly wrinkled with laughter, self-inspired by a quick quip; then his voice turned passionate as he summed up his lifetime concern that science "should be the foundation for the community...
...that theme, Physicist Rabi, 68, who was born in the old Austro-Hungarian empire, grew up in New York's Lower East Side and went on from a Ph.D. at Columbia University to become one of the nation's pioneer nuclear researchers, ended 37 years of teaching at Columbia. A 1944 Nobel prizewinner, Rabi developed the molecular-beam magnetic-resonance theories that laid the foundation for microwave radar, lasers, masers and modern radio astronomy. He was a consultant to the Manhattan Project that built the first atom bomb, and was one of the men responsible for creating...
...People. Even before he left, cops lower down the line felt something had to be done. Sergeant William Berry, president of the local chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police, decided that "we had a greater purpose than just going to parties and drinking beer." He hired a law firm to bridge the gap between the civil service cops and their city employers. Then he retained Bonsib, Inc., a Fort Wayne, Ind., public relations company. "We needed to get the man on the street to understand the police and their problems," explained Berry. Bonsib began by drawing...
...feet from the altar. He surrounded his circular nave with 16 individually shaped satellite chapels and anterooms, each set off from the next by 1-in.-thick blue stained-glass panels, extended a piazza to roof over an English Wrenaissance crypt built in the 1930s, and made the lower level a 200-car parking area with elevators from it for invalids...
...helicopter--all six of them--and then opened the door and asked them again. They still wouldn't answer. Then they pushed them out, one by one. They'd push one out and then ask the next "will you answer?" and they go a little higher or lower and they still won't answer so they pushed another one out until all six were gone...