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...Komics" frequent the Ritz Baths, a gay rendezvous complete with steam bath, tiny cubicles for man-to-man trysts and a third-rate entertainer, Googie Gomez, a thrush with a condor's appetite for stardom. As the chanteuse, Rita Moreno is a comic earthquake ranking ten on the Richter scale, though her Puerto Rican accent renders some of her lines unintelligible...
...discussion of our ticket manager Gordon Page in your supplement article on January 15 might lead some the Harvard community to misconceptions concerning his performance of football ticket distribution and I'd like to set the record straight. Gordon has a rating of 10 on the Richter Scale of integrity and has made many friends during his years of service. Many of these friends do present him with "holiday gifts," but it has nothing to do with any person getting preferential treatment to any Harvard athletic contest and Gordon would be personally insulted if anyone attempted to buy him. Because...
...some very exciting physics to tell you," said M.I.T. Physicist Samuel Ting earlier this month as he entered the office of Burton Richter, a Stanford University physicist. "Listen," Richter interrupted, "I've got some exciting physics to tell you." In fact, the two researchers, working independently and a continent apart, had almost simultaneously made an important discovery: a totally new type of subatomic particle that could upset prevailing ideas about the basic nature of matter...
Tentatively called a "J" particle by Ting's team, which used the 33 billion-electron-volt accelerator at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, and a "Psi" particle by Richter's group at the two-mile-long Stanford Linear Accelerator, it was the heaviest atomic fragment ever found-almost 3% times more massive than the proton. It was also, by nuclear standards, extremely long-lived. It survived a full one-hundred billionths of one-billionth of a second, or 1,000 times longer than other massive particles...
...charm." If such particles really exist, they would, in turn, be made up of a new "charmed" form of quarks and antiquarks-elusive fragments that have been hypothesized as the basic building blocks of all matter. By week's end that speculation took on dramatic new significance when Richter's team announced the discovery of still another new particle even more massive than the original Psi (or J) and said the hunt was on for others...