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...supercool atom smasher, operating at temperatures close to absolute zero (-460° F.), may be smaller and cheaper to build, and could operate on far less electrical power than conventional electromagnetic accelerators, said Midwestern Universities Research Association Physicist Dr. Cyril D. Curtis. By using such superconductive materials as niobium-tin alloy (TIME, March 3) instead of huge iron magnets, atom smashers now 1,200 ft. in diameter might be reduced to less than 550 ft., and construction and operation costs could be cut by 35%. Curtis' projection was underscored at the same A.P.S. session when Brookhaven National Laboratory...
...Midwestern farm girl whose family has moved nine times, earns less than $1,000 a year and forbids her to read books. Despite sub-winning test scores, she is headed for a state college as one of 20 able students picked for "exceptionally determined effort to overcome severe financial or similar disadvantages...
Much alike in their conservatism, Tower and Blakley differ vastly in almost every other way. A former assistant professor of government at Wichita Falls' Midwestern University, Republican Tower is articulate and youthfully energetic...
Roswell L. Gilpatric, 54. Deputy Secretary of Defense, is one of the few Pentagon leaders hand-picked by President Kennedy, who felt that McNamara, inexperienced in Washington ways, would need someone with previous Pentagon wound stripes to help him through the interservice booby traps. The two men-the driving Midwestern production man and the polished Eastern intellectual-have hit it off so well that McNamara now characteristically begins an opinion with the phrase, "Ros and I." Ros Gilpatric made Phi Beta Kappa at Yale (1928), got his law degree there (1931 ) and in time became a leading corporation lawyer...
This reminds one of the blind adoration the Midwestern girls in that classic of our time, Where the Boys Are felt for for Ivy boys. Typically, one remarked, "A date with a Leaguer! Isn't that the end?" American literature fans will remember that one of these admiring belles was ultimately taken to bed, round-robin style, by three Yalies, until late in the idyllic Ft. Lauderdale vacation, when the Yalies simply abandoned the round-robin method. Which all proves that Ivy League boys aren't really so different after...