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...truth, King Cariadoc is a Columbia University physicist named David Friedman, and the valiant knight who "slew" him is a male nurse from Toledo named Andrew Holly. The clash of their armies near Waterford, Pa., last weekend was brutal but bloodless. It was merely another lovingly re-created medieval spectacle staged by the Society for Creative Anachronism, a six-year-old organization whose 3,000 members are in love with the Middle Ages. They like nothing better than dressing in replicas of medieval clothing, adopting such names as Sir Thorvald the Grim and playing Knight...
...made and occurred in a closely guarded makeshift laboratory under Stagg Field at the University of Chicago on Dec. 2, 1942. Last week a former high commissioner of the French Atomic Energy Commission took issue with that belief. Addressing a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences in Paris, Physicist Francis Perrin argued that nature, not man, produced the first chain reaction, and that it occurred in an African uranium deposit perhaps 1.7 billion years...
Meanwhile, 34 authors of merely "good" books, chosen from the 100 or so that Adler reads each year, have been added, including works by Epicurus, Martin Luther and six writers of the 20th century: Historian Arnold Toynbee, Physicist Max Planck, Philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre and Novelists Henry James, Franz Kafka and Alexander Solzhenitsyn...
Corn Hints. In the current issue, for example, Princeton Physicist Melvin Gottlieb postulates that controlled fusion, using water as a source of raw material, may solve power shortages of the future. British Freelancer Jonathan Power concludes that urban development could be disastrous in Africa, where "rural life and the land offer something better than the god of G.N.P...
With his nimble mind and ability to manipulate numbers, he might have become a nuclear physicist or a chess master. Instead, James Joseph Ling became the quintessential conglomerator. In the roaring '60s he created a company that eventually ran up sales of $3.75 billion a year from products as diverse as jet planes and hamburgers. By 1969, Ling-Temco-Vought of Dallas was the 14th largest industrial enterprise in the U.S. In 1970, with LTV stock crashing and bankers hounding him for huge debts, Ling's own directors booted...