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...platter. A Ph.D. (Yale, 1925), he spent his early career studying the phenomenon of ionization, began working on the cyclotron as early as 1930. He first demonstrated it that year with a crude but scientifically overwhelming do-it-yourself kit: a kitchen chair, clothes tree, toy-sized four-inch magnet, pie-sized vacuum chamber made of window glass, brass and sealing wax. Nobel Prizewinner (1939) Lawrence is a humorous, vigorous man who steams around his labs with-as nucleonics folk term it-all rods in. He plays tennis, fiddles with television (he invented a color TV tube in his garage...
...date, the semiburied method has shown better powers of retention, stability and chewing efficiency, but because chewing sets up great stresses and mandibles change shape over periods of time, the Vitallium lattice tends to become ill-fitting and protrude from the gums. The magnet implant stays in place longer, and observations over a five-year period show no loosening or irritation. Says Dr. Behrman confidently: "This is a technique with a future...
Paris by Night. In all Europe this year, only the prewar mecca of continental tourism stands comparatively deserted. Boatloads and planeloads of people were arriving in France as they always had, but they were going right on-to Spain, whose low prices are a potent magnet, to Italy, and even to Greece, whose fewer hotels are so full that no newcomers could get a bed. "Foreign tourists pass through France, but they no longer stay," complained Le Parisien Libéré. Conducted tours of "Paris by Night," promising Le Striptease and authentic Apaches, were down to a half...
...serious electronic warfare can get. An attorney who had learned that his opponent planned to introduce into court the tape recording of a secret meeting carried a powerful, battery-operated electromagnet into court in his briefcase. He placed his briefcase near the opposition lawyer's tape. The magnet erased the recording, left the rival attorney with a blank tape and blank expression when he got up to play the evidence...
...workshop will occupy the second and third floors, and the Cambridge Electron Accelerator will establish magnet assembly shop on the first floor and basement levels. The Building and Grounds Department is moving later this month to its new building near Soldiers' Field, and the Maintenence Shop will be converted during the summer...