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...order, without revealing the pact or the motive. The four are loners, dependent upon each other in tangled psychological ways. Adler is a fat, ugly and lonely neuter from the Ozarks, who cannot reconcile his hillbilly background with his aspirations in botany and his love of dance and literature. Pless, a young psychologist whose feelings have been frozen since his father's death in a foolish flying accident, and Stoker, a hopeful writer still struggling with sexual incompetence, grew up together in Florida as the sons of Air Force pilots...
Last night Irwin Pless, professor of physics at M.I.T., who is in charge of the bubble chamber project, said that the bubble chamber appears to be 35 to 90 per cent intact, although "we won't know for sure until we tear it up and look at nuts and bolts...
Although it is true that a scientific instrument such as the bubble chamber or even the accelerator itself does have an almost measurable "halflife" or period of peak usefulness, Pless explained, there is an excess of work for the approximately 15 bubble chambers in the world today...
BETTER LEFT UNSAID-Daisy, Princess of Pless-Dutton...
...privilege of looking at kings, and kings had what seems to have been the greater privilege of looking at her. Born an Irish-English beauty, Daisy Cornwallis-West became a German Princess when she married Henry of Pless. In Daisy, Princess of Pless (TIME, March 17, 1930) she told what it was like to be English-born royalty in Germany during the War. Better Left Unsaid gives her reminiscences of the pre-War years...