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...longest of New York's Finger Lakes-daringly coed (since 1872) Cornell soon climbed to first-class status. Down the hill marched illustrious alumni, from F.D.R.'s Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. to Lawyer Arthur Dean, who now chairs the trustees. Other notables: Critic George Jean Nathan, Physicist Isidor Rabi, Authors Pearl Buck and E. B. White...
...most laymen, Physicist Werner Heisenberg's formula denning uncertainty is as incomprehensible as an income tax instruction sheet. But to Managing Editor Alfred Friendly of the Washington Post, it's as simple as π. What it means, Friendly explained in the current Bulletin of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, is that "the very act of observing or probing a phenomenon changes the phenomenon." Heisenberg developed his principle while studying electrons-tiny particles with properties that change even as they are being measured. Friendly applied the principle to the coverage of some important events by reporters in "battalion...
...central laboratory, they are scintillometers set out to watch for enormously powerful cosmic rays that smack into atoms in the high atmosphere and, as a result of the crash, spray the earth's surface with millions of subatomic particles. Despite the minute size of his quarry, Physicist John Linsley of M.I.T., who operates the ray trap, reported a tremendous catch: a shower of 50 billion particles...
...primary, but not the only, impulse for emigration. British scientists and technicians are impressed by the U.S.'s more sophisticated research facilities, by its stimulating scientific atmosphere, and by the prospect of eventually reaching higher management positions than in Britain. Scientists who are tempted away, says London University Physicist G. O. Jones, are "always the most adventurous, energetic and gifted. The loss to Britain is thus far more serious than mere numbers suggest...
...Physicist Louis D. Kaplan of the University of Nevada and JPL, who helped design Mariner II's infra-red experiment, thinks that at ground level, Venus' atmospheric pressure may be 10 to 20 times that of Earth. Its dry, unbreathable air contains perhaps 10% carbon dioxide (v. .03% for Earth) and probably a little nitrogen. The clouds are so dense that the surface is probably dark. Radar waves bounced off Venus indicate rather uncertainly that there may be both mountains and smooth places, as on the earth...