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...Hecht tells how the scientists discovered that atoms are made up of smaller particles, including the notorious neutron, which can slip into an atom's nucleus. Once Dr. Hecht has the reader aware of neutrons, he finds it easy to explain how some atoms can be disrupted by neutron infiltration, loosing a gush of energy...
...weep, for it has been an abnormally long life. Built in 1759 by a young Royalist, the house was confiscated by the American government fifteen years later, when the owner, after a life of unhappy splendor, fled to the besieged British in Boston. It wasn't long before the nucleus of the American Navy moved in, a bunch of fishermen from Marblehead. They messed the place up pretty badly, and Washington, deciding to move in from his undesirable quarters in Wadsworth House, had to foot a cleaning and redecorating bill of twelve dollars...
Starting with a nucleus of talent from his own organization, Allegretti hopes to incorporate other local talent, both from within the College and from such sources of talent as Radcliffe and Wellesley. This radio group will supplant the HDC's present reading theater group, and "will be an opportunity to go into far more ambitious productions than the limited facilities at College will allow," he predicts. "With their equipment we can even put on Orson Welles type shows...
Even though one yearbook for both Classes is favored unanimously by the '47 Album Board, appointed last week, and the temporary nucleus of the '48 Board, final approval or disapproval must come from the Class Committees...
These seven men, elected by preferential ballot, will join the eight House delegates selected last week to form the nucleus of next year's Council, serving until...