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Alfvén, 62, a Swedish physicist, was cited for his fundamental contributions to the understanding of plasmas-the ionized (electrically charged) gases that make up the bulk of matter in the universe. Ignored at first, his work became important in the late 1940s when the plasma waves he had postulated were detected in the laboratory. Soon his theories may produce a bigger dividend: physicists are convinced that plasmas offer the only practical means of attaining the enormous temperatures (630 million degrees F.) needed for controlled nuclear fusion. Restlessly, Alfvén has already expanded into other fields: cosmology...
Other expected results were the victories of incumbents in the Fifth District, where F. Bradford Morse (R) easily defeated physicist Richard Williams (D), and the Seventh District, where Torbet MacDonald (D) routinely routed his perennial opponent, Gordon F. Hughes (R), for the fifth consecutive time...
...intellectual commitment, like that of his heroes, keeps him from a direct (and therefore false, because unexamined) participation in "reality." He does what he can- he refines images and sounds as means of analyzing and coming to know reality, the way a philosopher might refine his terms or a physicist his instruments. Le Gai Savoir, as of 1968 Godard's furthest attempt, is consequently cut off from reality. There's no more going into people's homes with questions, no direct action or activism, no direct contact with reality for the characters. The images Leaud and Berto...
...Powers of Ten, one such idea film that Eames presented in 1968 to a meeting of America's top physicists, sketches a linear zoom to the farthest known point in the galaxies down to the nucleus of a carbon atom. What makes the film almost surreal at times is the starting point-the wrist of a man lying on Miami Beach-and the narrator, a serious female voice. Yet, whether physicist or child, one gets a feeling for the dimensions of time and space...
...Protests were heard on hundreds of the nation's campuses after the Kent State incident, and I was one of those who advocated strike at my own university. But after Physicist Robert E. Fassnacht, a graduate student, was killed by a bomb set off by what is believed to have been an "antiEstablishment" group [Sept. 7], not one word was heard from the youth leaders of last spring condemning this tragic...