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...technology of very low temperatures), which has been instrumental in developments ranging from exotic new metals to important new discoveries in superconductivity. Liquid hydrogen came into its own when it was put to use in bubble chambers for experiments in high-energy physics. In such studies, accelerators smash the nucleus of a hydrogen atom, scattering subnuclear debris through the bubble chamber, where scientists can follow and photograph the paths of the tiny charged particles by their tracks of small bubbles. This technique, which was to have been used at Cambridge, has led to the discovery and identification of many...
...Billion Volts. Last week a team of Columbia University researchers dispelled the doubts. In the Physical Review Letters, the Columbia scientists reported that they have produced the first complex nucleus of antimatter ever observed-the anti-deuteron. It is the antimatter counterpart to the nucleus of deuterium (heavy hydrogen), consists of an antiproton and antineutron bound by a strong nuclear force, and has a negative charge. Such an achievement, the Columbia researchers conclude, provides strong evidence to support theories about the existence of an antiworld of stars, planets, and possibly even antipeople...
...commercial nucleus of Boston's art world lies along Newbury Street in the three blocks from Clarendon to Fairfield Street. At last count, there were 22 galleries in the area, less than on-tenth the number in New York. Everything in the Boston art scene exists on a lower scale than in New York (including perhaps the usual quality of work); great extremes of venality and eccentricity simply do not exist on Newbury Street. Nearly every gallery owner mans his own shop, and is likely to have time to talk with anyone who looks interested; there are none...
Died. Nathalie Henderson Swan, 83, a lifelong humanitarian who as a debutante decided in 1901 "that privilege carried with it a responsibility to the community," together with Friend Mary Harriman (Averell's sister) founded New York's Junior League, nucleus of the highly social volunteer women's service organization that now boasts 89,700 members in the U.S., Canada and Mexico; of a heart ailment; in Boca Grande...
...Bronx's aging Charles Buckley, once a business associate of Joseph Kennedy, was President Kennedy's earliest supporter in New York, a staunch foe of Mayor Wagner, and one of Bobby's strongest allies. These men formed the cadre of Kennedy's strength in New York and the nucleus of the Albany revolt...