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...station blew up. Installing a trigger modification on one of the 526th B Battery Nikes near Leonardo, N.J., ordnance technicians accidentally detonated the missile. Explosion and flame touched off seven more Nikes squatting on adjacent pads, blew or burned ten men to death, showered a three-mile radius with fragments...
...frozen lake. While figuring theoretically how to lay out the 35,080-ft. track, they considered making it perfectly straight both up-and-down and sideways, but gave this up because the curvature of the earth (the earth considered as a sphere with a 4,000-mile radius) would require either a cut in the ground 35 ft. deep at the midsection of the track, or 35-ft. embankments at the ends. So the engineers compromised with nature by making their track a series of sections slightly less humpbacked than the earth's curve...
WHRB will increase the height of its broadcasting tower on top of Dudley Hall to "make the signal stronger within the listening radius of the station...
...Physicist Hofstadter did turn up some fundamental knowledge about the neutron that could only please his audience: the radius of the neutron is about 7 X 10 -14 centimeters, or roughly one 40,000,000,000,000th of an inch. Cried Columbia's Nobel Prizewinner Dr. I. I. Rabi: "Hofstadter has found the size of the primary building block of ourselves and our environment, the primordial particle. It is a finding of immense interest, importance, and even beauty...
Benedict FitzGerald '08, of Cambridge, complained that he has no place to move the house in the Cambridge area because no residential land is available. He is searching for a "75 foot plot of land within the radius of a mile and a half of Harvard Square...