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Several have been engaged in space-related scientific research. Air Force Major Edward G. Givens Jr., 36, has been stationed at NASA's Houston headquarters, as project officer for a Buck Rogersish backpack to power space walks. Physicist Don L. Lind, a former Navy airman, helped devise a mechanism for measuring "solar wind"-charged particles that flow through space. Youngest of the lot at 28 is Navy Lieut. Bruce McCandless II, a doctoral candidate in electrical engineering at Stanford, whose father won the Medal of Honor aboard the U.S.S. San Francisco off Guadalcanal...
...most, and more manly too. Anouk's boldest designs are reserved for Giovanna Ralli, a newer exotic, who smartly assumes the attitudes of a neurotic young matron beset by conventional woes. Her parents are a wretchedly selfish pair; she cannot concentrate on raising her young son; and her physicist husband is so preoccupied with the mysteries of nuclear fission that he seldom wonders what his wife thinks. Giovanna consults an analyst and discovers that she thinks mostly about Anouk...
...mostly his camera composes a critical essay on wealth, boredom, lovers, luxury flats, all the icons of fashionable corruption that Italian moviemakers love to hate. The rest of the movie is so elliptical that Giovanna's "tragic death," presumably by suicide, is never explained, and cues the physicist to recall more of her unhappy history in flashbacks pressed from a charred diary. Sad to say, the dead wife's darker secrets turn out to be less interesting, after all, than some of the projects under...
Disciplined Waves. The basic principles of holography were worked out 20 years ago by British Physicist Dennis Gabor, but they could not be put to use effectively without the peculiar light that lasers now provide. Unlike "white" light from the sun or an electric light bulb, which radiates in all directions and consists of a whole spectrum of colors, light waves from a laser are highly disciplined or "coherent." They are of only one color-which means that they are all of the same frequency. And they all emerge from the laser in step-in phase with each other...
Julius Stratton, 64, M.l.T. A scholar as well as keen administrator, he spends at least a day each week on national committees: "People have asked me how you get on these boards, but the difficulty is staying off." A physicist, he has spent more than 40 years at M.I.T., says that "those of us who are centered on science have a national obligation to respond...