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Thought there will be no celebration, tomorrow will mark an anniversary, Two years ago, with humming, crackling, and much publicity, Harvard's brand new cyclotron first went into action. This 125,000 volt particle pusher is the core of a new set of buildings on Oxford Street which comprises the Nuclear Laboratory...
Everytime he saw a mountain, Air Force Reserve Lieut. John Hodgkin was seized by an overwhelming urge to land an airplane on it. It had been tough when he was a boy-his wheezy, old Curtiss-Wright pusher with its 45-h.p. engine was no match for the Sierra Nevadas towering over his home in Selma, Calif...
...enough to give him a "jam-on-jam feeling" the first day. He soon found himself treated as a "resident American oracle," expected to answer at the drop of a pencil such questions as "What is the first name of Senator Johnson from Texas?" and "What is a cookie-pusher?" The answer to these came easy, but occasionally he was jolted by deadpan requests to rattle off statistics-like the average number of short tons of zinc which U.S. industry normally had on hand at the end of the month...
Yale's definition of success excludes the man who too ardently seeks to get ahead. Elis frown on the "pusher." A heeler is thus in the disconcerting position of working night and day on an activity, and at the same time exuding the impression that he really isn't interested. As a result, Yalies often look apathetic and uninspired in performing their extra-curricular functions...
...monster, is LeMay's blue-ribbon flying warship. It costs $4,700,000 before it ever gets off the ground (a small submarine costs $6,000,000). The tanks in its 230-ft. wing can swallow 2½ tank-car loads of gasoline, enough to feed its six pusher engines for nearly two days. It can cruise over the enemy out of sight of earth-and, the Air Force insists, fairly well above the range of effective interception. Four new jet engines, hanging beneath the wingtips, were designed to give it a spurt over the target to at least...