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Physicist Edwin McMillan, 63, Nobel laureate and head of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in California, had seen in his own lab the same flashes of light that astronauts see in space when their eyes are closed. Furthermore, he said, the experiment showed that atomic particles were causing the flashes -not through impact with the optic nerve or passage through the eye fluid, but by penetrating the retina itself...
...McMillan's excitement went beyond the light experiment. Hundreds of technicians, engineers and scientists had worked since March at modifying the Berkeley Bevatron-which was designed for experiments with high-energy protons-to accelerate even heavier particles: nitrogen ions. As a result, McMillan announced at a press conference last week, nitrogen nuclei had been boosted to 36 billion electron volts, the highest energy level ever attained for such heavy particles in a laboratory...
Anyone who ever bothered to think of it, including the authoritative Biographical Directory of the American Congress and perhaps his own mother, believed that South Carolina Representative John McMillan was 73 years old-born April 12, 1898, near Mullins, S.C. But McMillan came under criticism last January from liberals who claimed, among other things, that he was too old to be chairman of the House District of Columbia Committee. Now, in the just-published Congressional Directory, McMillan has miraculously shed four years. His birth date is listed as April 5, 1902. "I don't know his age," claims...
...McMillan has willingly weathered the ostracism. "He'd give Job stiff competition for patience," says his secretary. With characteristic good humor, he prizes a battery-run toy school bus given him by a fellow judge and periodically zooms it around his office carpet. (The toy manufacturer provided the bus with white student passengers only.) "A judge would ordinarily like to decide cases to suit his neighbors," McMillan admits. But in this case, he could...
Such reluctance to act may also serve to muddle the Supreme Court's busing decision, but the record shows that a solid majority of Southern federal judges have in fact carried out their responsibilities, whatever their initial personal feelings. Judge McMillan is in the best of that tradition. As he said when protesting lawyers argued that Charlotte was well ahead of most of the South in integrating even without busing: "Constitutional rights will not be denied here simply because they may be denied elsewhere. There is no 'Dow Jones average' for such rights...