Word: mu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work and remodeled itself. In the mood of reappraisal after the stones and spit that flew at Vice President Richard Nixon in South America, the island offers a laboratory where U.S. and Latin cultures and economies fuse with useful, imaginative lessons. For the dramatic methods that Poet-Governor Luis Muñoz Marin used in changing Puerto Rico from an "unsolvable problem" to a prosperous, burgeoning tropical workshop, see HEMISPHERE, The Bard of Bootstrap...
Last month, when Vice President Nixon left rioting Venezuela in saddened haste, he flew to San Juan. That night he spent 40 minutes wading four blocks through cheering Puerto Ricans ("Arriba Nixon!") to the wrought-iron gates of 400-year-old La Fortaleza, where Muñoz gave him a state dinner in the ancient fort's great candlelit dining room. Said Nixon: "I couldn't think of a better place to be." Said Muñoz: "Mr. Vice President, está en su casa [you are in your house...
...Keeping its usual firm hammerlock on reality, the government radio station in Ciudad Trujillo, La Voz Dominicana, explained: "We are not certain, but it seems logical that Nixon was alluding to the pathetic case of Puerto Rico, and to the dictatorship exerted over that unfortunate island by Governor Luis Muñoz Marin...
There was surprisingly unanimous agreement throughout the hemisphere on one point: the Reds had exploited an already rotten situation. Said Puerto Rico's Governor Luis Muñoz Marin: "The Communists must have taken advantage of a feeling among certain groups well beyond the small number of Reds there...
...what is known about the 28 accelerator-produced new particles, Grebe theorizes that they may all be multiples or combinations of only two: pairs of the negatively charged electron and the positively charged electron (positron). Reason is his discovery of two key particle ratios: that between the mass of mu and pi mesons, and that between the mass of the proton and sigma hyperon. Each proves to equal TT divided by four; this produces a new constant (1.12888), based on the inverse of the square root of TT divided by four, which Grebe calls "g." This tool "opens the door...