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Fort Utah. An Indian moves stealthily among rocks, then drops down on a lone rider. They grapple in a knife-and-death struggle. The scene, portrayed for what must be the millionth time, begins this assembly-line film, which includes almost every other cliche known to Western man. Nearly as old as the plot are the actors. An aging gunfighter (John Ireland), fleeing from his reputation, meets up with a wagon train carrying an aging, golden-haired lady (Virginia Mayo). Soon they are pursued by an aging villain (Scott Brady) and some aging Indians. In the end, Ireland blasts...
...frequency radio waves used to accelerate electrons through the copper tube could quickly produce high temperatures by generating electric currents in the walls of the tube. To prevent serious heat damage, the electrons were fired in very short bursts. Stanford's SLAC is designed to fire electrons in millionth-of-a-second bursts separated by intervals of a thousandth of a second...
...core material to sustain violent nuclear reactions. In the implosion bomb shown in the sketch, shaped charges of high explosives (B) are simultaneously triggered by detonators (A), the force of the explosions being directed inward, rapidly compressing the plutonium around a beryllium neutron source (D). In less than a millionth of a second, the supercritical mass explodes...
Rainbow of Colors. To measure this tiny quantity-less than a millionth of the energy needed to split the nucleus of an atom-the scientists devised an ingenious technique. Light from a 200-watt mercury vapor lamp was focused on a diffraction grating, which, like a prism, broke up the beam into its constituent rainbow of colors, its separate wave lengths of light. By rotating the grating to a carefully calculated angle, the scientists were able to reflect light of a single, specific wave length at a target. Knowing the wave length, they were able to determine precisely the energy...
...gathers samples of toiletries and tobacco products that manufacturers usually give away free, boxes them into "Campus-Pacs," and distributes them through college stores. His Guest Pac Corp. recently sold its 10 millionth box and, with the obvious inspiration of a public-relations man, celebrated by giving a $250 scholarship to the M.I.T. coed, Laura Miller...