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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hary's performance caught the U.S. completely off guard. For one thing, the U.S., which had not lost the 100 meters since 1928, seemed as strong as ever, with a trio headed by Ray Norton. For another. Hary had always been regarded with some suspicion. Rivals had long claimed that tolerant European starters let him beat the gun. When Hary knocked .1 sec. off the world record this summer with a time of 10 sec. flat, skeptical U.S. and European coaches alike freely predicted that he would certainly be run into the ground in Rome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hary! Hary! Hary! | 9/12/1960 | See Source »

...coop are four disks, each one meter across and wrapped in black plastic. From the disks, cables run to a central building crammed with oscilloscopes and other delicate gear. Last week the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, institutional proprietor of all this apparatus, announced that it has detected a cosmic ray (high-speed particle) that came to the earth from a foreign galaxy millions of light years away in the far depths of space. This was eye-opening scientific news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: From Way Out | 9/12/1960 | See Source »

...Cosmic rays have long been a fascinating and controversial subject among scientists. It is generally agreed that most low-speed cosmic rays are particles shot out of the sun, but that those with higher energy must come from somewhere else. The late Enrico Fermi thought they came from interstellar magnetic fields which gradually speed up protons and other charged particles moving between the stars of the Milky Way galaxy (the earth itself is a smallish satellite to one of the smaller stars in this galaxy). But this theory could not account for rays whose energy is above a critical limit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: From Way Out | 9/12/1960 | See Source »

Counting Showers. For many years Professor Bruno Rossi of M.I.T. has hunt ed for cosmic rays above this critical limit. The original energy of a cosmic ray can be measured by counting the second-ary particles that it showers down on the earth after colliding with air molecules in the high atmosphere. If its energy is 1016 (io million billion) electron volts, it generates millions of particles, mostly electrons and mesons which spread over many acres of ground. More powerful rays give even bigger showers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: From Way Out | 9/12/1960 | See Source »

Rossi's ray catcher at-Volcano Ranch is an array of scintillation counters that gives electrical signals whenever fast-moving particles hit it. If a shower looks interesting, its record is transferred to tabulator cards and analyzed by a computer at Kirtland Air Force Base. The final answer tells the ray's energy when it hit the top of the atmosphere and caused the shower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: From Way Out | 9/12/1960 | See Source »

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