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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Republican Paul N. ("Pete") McCloskey, 40, crew-cut former Marine Korean War hero who talks like a liberal Democrat, is dovish on Viet...
...also considerable nonmilitary fallout from secret work. A 26-acre antenna built at Stanford to help the U.S. learn how to detect enemy missile launches was used by Stanford Electrical Engineer Von R. Eshleman to bounce the first radar signals off the sun.* Classified research at Michigan helped Emmett N. Leith develop the new science of holography (see SCIENCE), which uses laser light to produce three-dimensional images with potential uses in art, television and industry. Says Leith: "The idea that you can close yourself off to these programs is pure ignorance...
...days when small chil dren played contentedly with featureless rag dolls. Today's vogue is for realism, and toymakers now turn out dolls that can walk, talk, cry and even wet. When Frank Caplan, general manager of Creative Playthings, Inc., spotted a French doll called Petit Frere at Nürnberg's doll fair last March, he jumped at the opportunity to buy up distribution rights for the U.S. Renamed "Little Brother," the doll has a sweet angelic face, is, in fact, modeled after a Verrocchio Renaissance cherub in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, and has the normal...
...eight are: Samuel N. Johnson, Robert S. Ervin, James B. Prior, Richard Behn, George G. Whitehouse, Peter Van Allen Hayn, and Lawrence E. Stager, all of the Divinity School, and Samuel J. Miesels, first-year student at the Ed School...
...Pennsylvania Railroad showed a sharp drop in earnings, from $27,557,000 last year to $11,135,000. Union Pacific's net income was down from $26,193,000 to $19,595,000, and Norfolk & Western, normally one of the most profitable, had a 23% earnings decline. The N. & W. managed, however, to set another sort of record. Pulled and pushed by eight diesel engines, a supertrain of 450 coal cars moved over 47 miles of N. & W. track to set a freight-train record for U.S. railroads. Any motorist caught at a grade crossing had to wait...