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Nuclear physicists are "in the position of a boy who finds a penny and thinks he is on the way to becoming a millionaire." So says famed Physicist Luis Alvarez of the University of California, who spoke last week before a Monterey meeting of the American Physical Society. Dr. Alvarez made an announcement that excited scientists and engineers all over the world. He offered nothing practical, only some odd, squiggly lines and a mass of abstruse interpretation. But the lines and theories may eventually grow into a new and better kind of nuclear energy...
...Baptist Church, to deliver an invocation in San Francisco. Cheerfully he approved a tentative schedule that puts him (and Mamie) in San Francisco next Wednesday evening, calls for an acceptance speech on Thursday, and grants three or four days' vacation at posh Cypress Point on California's Monterey Peninsula...
...dimensional adjunct to her great husband Robert Louis Stevenson. Now, all at once, Fanny is three-dimensional. Anthologist-Author Charles Neider, aided by infra-red and ultraviolet light, but hindered by often almost illegible handwriting, has published Fanny's diary, which he discovered gathering dust in a Monterey, Calif, museum...
LEONARD W. FELSTINER Monterey, Calif...
...began with his first successful book. Tortilla Flat (1935), continued in Cannery Row (1945), and appear again in Sweet Thursday, which is really a return visit to Cannery Row. It reads like stuff that has been salvaged from the wastebasket. All the characters in Sweet Thursday (who live in Monterey, Calif., Steinbeck's home territory) have a lot in common: rotgut whisky in their bellies, leather in their hides, gold in their hearts and bats in their belfries...