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...later life, said Charles Franklin Kettering, who grew up in wonderment on an Ohio farm. "Why," he asked, peering nearsightedly out of his mother's kitchen window, "can I see through a pane of glass?" "What," he asked, "is magnetism? I would like to know how a magnet reaches out and pulls a piece of metal to it." Charlie Kettering was not satisfied with merely asking the questions: all his life he probed for the answers with his pliers, his screw driver, his wrench-and his insatiably curious mind...
...East Germany's subjects have fled into West Berlin, including in recent months the cream of its technical and professional ranks most needed to carry out Communist plans. Berlin may be an inconvenient outpost for the West to supply, but for the East it is an embarrassing magnet. As a pledge of the West's determination to stay there, Eleanor Dulles, special assistant to the State Department's Office of German Affairs and sister of the Secretary of State, last week described plans for a U.S.-and German-financed $15 million medical training center-to be built...
Just as serious is the effect--academically--of the 'disintegration' of the Yale community on weekends. "A weekend away from New Haven, with a girl's college or one of its denizens as the magnet in the case, is now a regular occurrence.... The causes of this development are numerous and complicated, and the results are almost catastrophic, in my opinion, for the continued good health of undergraduate education at Yale," Thomas C. Mendenhall, Master of Berkeley College and Smith's president-elect, wrote in 1953. "When the student's original academic obligation and his self-imposed extra-curricular demands...
...organize Lone Star Steel Co., biggest in Texas. Partly to persuade big Texas borrowers that it was no longer necessary to go to New York, Florence gave Republic the most impressive face in Dallas-a $25 million, 40-story building sheathed in aluminum. The skyscraper has acted as a magnet to bring Dallas such other structures as the new Hotel Statler Hilton...
...present, Preston says, the Harvard machine can be considered an "intermediate energy cyclotron;" there are about half a dozen larger accelerators of this type in the world. Beyond a certain level of energy (about 600 million electron volts), he says, this particular type of machine (utilizing a single large magnet) is no longer practicable, because of the large size of the magnet required. Therefore, new methods involving a series of magnets, such as those used in the Cambridge Electron Accelerator and the Brookhaven cyclotron, had to be devised...