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Died. Major General William Joseph ("Wild Bill") Donovan, 76, Wall Street lawyer, World War I commander of the New York City regiment in the Rainbow Division popularly known as the Fighting 69th, World War II director of the Office of Strategic Services, which conducted U.S. espionage activity behind enemy lines, U.S. Ambassador to Thailand (1953-54); in Washington. Shy, mild Bill Donovan had an antonymic nickname, quiet reserves of courage. Near the Marne in 1918, with a machine-gun bullet in his leg, Colonel Donovan refused evacuation, set an example that won him the Medal of Honor...
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...through water in a flask. The glow was exceedingly faint, and a less curious man might have put it aside as ordinary fluorescence, which is given off by many materials when struck by gamma rays. But Cherenkov's mysterious light proved to be strongly polarized, had a continuous (rainbow-like) spectrum, and was given off predominantly in the direction of the gamma rays...
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