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...Russia; it is in Switzerland. In the rolling countryside three miles northwest of Geneva, the European Council for Nuclear Research (CERN) has built a great new proton synchrotron designed to produce 25 billion electron volts. Half buried in a hillside, it is a huge doughnut of magnet steel, 656 ft. in outside diameter. Last week British Physicist John B. Adams, chief of CERN's Proton Synchrotron Division, ordered slight corrections in the magnetic field, watched as the protons sped faster and faster around their circular track inside the doughnut, triumphantly saw the oscillograph's curve reach...
...feels bound to support Actress Cornell, with whom he first co-starred in The Barretts of Wimpole Street in 1931. And to Actress Cornell the road is as much a magnet as when she ran a record 18,000-mile marathon of 77 cities with a repertory including Romeo and Juliet in 1933. "The road isn't what it used to be," she concedes. "You can't get private railroad cars, and there aren't any trains any more." But Cornell despises television, has never made a movie, and finds it increasingly hard to find a Broadway...
Arching Lines. Project Argus began with a suggestion from Nicholas Constantine Christofilos, 42, a remarkable engineer-scientist of limited academic training but highly original ideas. For centuries, scientists have known that the earth behaves as if it had a great bar magnet inside it; lines of magnetic force make compass needles point to the magnetic north and south poles. As magnetic theory developed, scientists realized that the lines of force must arch high above the atmosphere. More than 50 years ago they began to speculate on how charged particles such as electrons would behave in the vacuum of space near...
Newest notion is to use magnet coils cooled by liquid hydrogen to 10° or 20° above absolute zero ( - 459.6° F.). At this temperature the conductivity of metals is enormously increased. Supercold coils carrying monstrous currents might produce magnetic fields strong enough...
...Magnet. It is never sufficient to be defensive. Freedom must be a positive force that will penetrate. Freedom is still a magnet that attracts. Let me recall some facts...