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...then spit it out as a short but enormously powerful jolt of energy. And Zeus is dangerous, a fact well known to every one of the electricians who swarm over it. The least of Zeus's bolts could burn them to a crisp. When Dr. Tom Putnam, physicist in charge, gets ready to ask Zeus to hurl a trial thunderbolt, he takes elaborate precautions. First he locks the monster in its room. Then he starts the "permissive chain" on the control board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sudden Zeus | 3/28/1960 | See Source »

...stands second in line to the throne after Prince Charles. Would he have to follow the dreary tradition of most royal sons, growing up in uniform only to lead a life of ceremonial drudgery? "A royal prince," suggested the London Express, "who was a doctor or a nuclear physicist or an engineer-that would be a break with tradition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: It's a Boy! | 2/29/1960 | See Source »

...shrouded in secrecy, but some top atomic experts estimate that it was roughly as efficient as the early U.S. bombs, i.e., it achieved fission of 2% of the plutonium it contained. (Current rate of fission in the U.S. bombs is estimated at 10%.) Says one Western European nuclear physicist well acquainted with the French atomic program: "They are ten years behind the Americans, seven years behind the British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: France's Atomic Status | 2/29/1960 | See Source »

...washer, called the Aseptic Air System, is relatively inexpensive. Its inventors, a physicist and a well-to-do gadgeteer, can equip the average 1,000-sq.-ft. operating room for as little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Surgical Air | 2/29/1960 | See Source »

Johns Hopkins File 7 (ABC, 12-12:30 p.m.). A New Look at the Universe, featuring Dr. Herbert Friedman, physicist with the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: On Broadway, Feb. 29, 1960 | 2/29/1960 | See Source »

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