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Most of McCarthy's staffers consider themselves "New Stevensonians" and are outraged by Bobby Kennedy's candidacy. "We'll fight him the same way we fought Johnson," growls Joel Feigenbaum, 25, a Cornell theoretical physicist. Ann Hart and a few plucky pals argue that McCarthy's issue-oriented idealism is the only answer to the nation's malaise. "We wouldn't do this cruddy work for anybody but Gene McCarthy," says Ann, who lost 18 Ibs. during her New Hampshire duty, and slept a straight 16 hours on returning to her Washington home...
...host of theories about pulsars. Yeshiva University Astrophysicist A.G.W. Cameron and Caltech Astronomer John B. Oke believe the mysterious objects may be white dwarfs, Cameron suggesting that their frequency of oscillation is actually a harmonic of the lower frequency assigned to dwarfs by current theory. U.S. Naval Research Physicist Herbert Friedman of the U.S. Naval Research Lab oratory and Cornell Astronomer Thomas Gold support the neutron-star hypothesis. Gold speculates that the first pulsar identified may be an extremely dense body as small as six to 60 miles in diameter that rotates once every 1.337 seconds...
Using magnetic-field data ranging back to A.D. 1670, Physicist Keith McDonald of the Environmental Science Services Administration and Robert Gunst of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey have calculated that the field's strength has decreased by 15% in the past three centuries. If the decline continues at the present rate, they believe, the magnetic field will fade away completely in 2,023 years...
Last year, during two intervals when Mercury and Earth were on opposite sides of the sun, a team led by Physicist Irwin Shapiro bounced high-frequency signals from M.I.T.'s exceptionally precise Haystack radar antenna off the planet Mercury. On their way to and from Mercury, the signals, which travel at the speed of light, had to pass close to the sun. During these passages, according to the Einstein equations, solar gravity should have actually slowed them down, lengthening their 23-minute round-trip time to Mercury by one five-thousandth of a second...
Decentralization, then, aims also at promoting an even cultural mix--creating a truly classless society. On this score, it seems to have gotten mixed results. In May, Pham Van Dong spoke earnestly with an Italian physicist about the "cultural" benefits which the war was bringing peasants, but his insistence seemed to hid frustration, and the mere mention of the problem establishes its existence...