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...greater variety of synthetic materials. He discovered the phenomenon of chain transmission, in which one molecule that is growing, or adding units to its chain, can stop and pass its growing power on to another. Industrial researchers are using Flory's discoveries to develop fibers that may prove to have three times the strength of nylon but only a fraction of its weight. Flory, at Stanford since 1961, is currently studying the polymers in living organisms. Because skin, bone and muscle fibers are made up of long-chain molecules, his work could conceivably lead to the day when...
...sure they've been working on it, but they still have to prove they can stop it," he added...
...prove that point, they will be out in front of the Pro again tonight...
Still, Brassai is not a parochial artist as the sixtytwo photographs on display in M.I.T.'s Hayden Gallery brilliantly prove. Brassai's works confront us as documents and as works of art. They present the appearance of a specific moment in history yet manage to escape a pernicious topicality. Brassai takes pictures that beckon us to return again and again, like his portrait of a peasant sleeping on a train, oblivious to the landscape whizzing by outside his window, his worn and grizzled head thrown back against the seat, his mouth a gaping black hole. Or his photograph of Kiki...
YALE-CORNELL--Anybody who saw last week's game at Soldiers' Field is aware that Cornell has an immensely talented football team. Emotionally, though, the outcome of the contest may have been a real killer. Don Fanelli is out with a bone chip in his knee, so Yale should prove to be a little too strong Yale 29, Cornell...