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Robert V. Pound, professor of Physics, has proved a fundamental postulate of Einstein's theory of relativity...
...confirmed the Principle of Equivalence, which says that the observable effects of gravity and of acceleration outside a gravitational field are equivalent, within 0.003 per cent of Einstein's predictions. Pound and his collaborator, Joseph Snider, assistant professor of Physics, announced their results in an article published yesterday in the Physical Review Letters...
...Pound and Glen K. Rebka, a graduate student, obtained measurements of the effect only five per cent removed from Einstein's calculations, with a statistical uncertainty of ten per cent...
Defense ruled the game so completely that Penn managed only three downs and Harvard eight. Crimson quarterbacks Ray Kubacki and John Shevlin were caught attempting to pass a total of six times by a Penn rush led by 240-pound tackle Allen Smith and end Charles Sturtevant...
...banking-control code just this year, only one bank has failed-the small Banque Foncière Libanaise, which went down in February. The failure did not faze Beirut's flexible, resilient money men. Since it occurred, total deposits have continued to rise, and the freely convertible Lebanese pound is stronger than ever...