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...Tsongas, on the other hand, is a full supporter of SALT, an opponent of the B-1 bomber. He has voted against every major increase in defense spending since he first took office. And now that Brooke's challenge comes from the left, the Senator has waffled over the neutron bomb...
...House. "His remarks are laced with deference toward his elders and respect for the traditions of the House," a commentator noticed. As for voting records, Krueger is a conservative. But Tower is a veritable neanderthal. In 1977, for example, the incumbent Senator voted for gas deregulation, deployment of the neutron bomb, development of nuclear breeder reactors, and multinational corporation subsidies through the Overseas Private Investment Corporation. He voted against just about everything else...
...been that emerges from the relaxed mind of Gerald Ford, ensconced last week at the edge of Thunderbird's glorious fairways in Palm Springs. If he had been elected two years ago, Ford goes on, he would have kept the B-l bomber moving, gone ahead with the neutron bomb and the M-X missile. He also would have had less trouble than that fellow now in the White House in getting a Panama Canal treaty approved, in ending the Turkish arms embargo and in selling planes to Saudi Arabia...
...late 1930s, on the eve of World War II, Oppenheimer published two landmark papers in the journal Physical Review. The first, in collaboration with a graduate student named George Volkoff, argued that neutron stars could in fact exist. They would have a diameter of about 10 km (6 miles) and weigh about 10 million tons per cu. cm. In the second paper, innocuously titled "On Continued Gravitational Contraction," Oppenheimer and another student, Hartland Snyder, contended that if the dying star was massive enough, nothing in Einstein's theory stood in the way of the ultimate compression?the formation...
...this was, of course, just theorizing, what Einstein called "thought" experiments. Conditions needed to form anything like a neutron star, to say nothing of a black hole, could not be duplicated on earth. Besides, the outbreak of the war forced scientists to turn to more pressing matters. Oppenheimer soon went off to direct the building of the first atomic bomb, and the concept of total gravitational collapse was largely forgotten until after...