Word: rays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ray S. Cline, Director of Studies
...three days that the cosmic-ray detector hung 130,000 ft. over Sioux City, Iowa, it marked the passage of 75 heavy atomic particles hurtling in from outer space. One of the particles was distinctly different from the others. Its telltale track through a sandwich of three dozen sheets of plastic, nuclear emulsion and photographic film looked unfamiliar to cosmic-ray researchers. Last week, nearly two years after their equipment was brought back to earth, scientists from the universities of California and Houston finally offered an explanation. The unexpected particle, they said, was almost surely a magnetic monopole, the long...
...charge on an electron. Or it would be some multiple of 68.5-say, 137. Scientists had good reason to respect Dirac's reasoning. He had earlier predicted the existence of a positron, or positively charged counterpart of the electron. The positron was subsequently discovered during cosmic-ray experiments in 1932, but the monopole proved more elusive. Physicists searched for it without success in everything from ocean-floor minerals to meteorites and moon rocks...
Critics of the Berkeley study are likely to insist that diet still cannot be discounted as a cause of coronaries. But researchers like Drs. Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenman, cardiologists from San Francisco's Mount Zion Hospital and Medical Center, find that the study's conclusions support the theory espoused by their book, Type A Behavior and Your Heart (TIME, April 15, 1974). The San Francisco doctors have long insisted that the American way of life is hard on the heart. The Berkeley study suggests that they are right...
...Government's dilemma is subtly symbolized by the position of SEC Chairman Ray Garrett. As a member of the Loan Board, his chief concern is to ensure that Lockheed survives until the Government is released from its commitment at the end of 1977. But as SEC chief, he would normally be expected to concentrate on seeing that the reporting rules are obeyed, whatever the damage to the company. Garrett's solution: he has disqualified himself from the SEC's deliberations as to what to do about Lockheed...