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...Melbourne's Koo-yong stadium boiled to 112° last week, but nobody minded except the spectators (too of whom fainted in their seats) and a listless pair of players from sunny Italy. In a mismatch worthy of the Roman Colosseum, Australia's Davis Cup defenders, Rod Laver, Neale Fraser and Roy Emerson, beat back the Italian challengers 5-0, took home the 62-year-old cup for a record tenth time in twelve years...
Nehru finds Menon witty, intelligent, provocative. Besides, he serves as a kind of lightning rod for other left-wing Indian intellectuals who might harass (and bore) Nehru far more if it were not for Menon's position close to the Prime Minister. Involved in a close race in the last general election in 1957, Menon expects another tight contest against the widely respected coalition candidate, Acharya J. B. Kripalani next February. The "conquest" of Goa probably gives Menon the edge he needs to carry his North Bombay constituency handily...
Stanley thus gave a crystal-clear answer to the question: What is TMV? Electron micrographs showed thin rod-shaped crystals, little more than a hundred-thousandth of an inch long. This answer raised an intriguing new question. Is a virus animate or inanimate, living or dead, animal or mineral? Dr. Stanley's way out of the dilemma is to broaden the definition of "living'' to include any particles that are capable of reproducing or replicating themselves. That covers viruses...
...practice, smoothly polished, spherically tipped diamond is the actual groove runner (or, if you have weak floors, groove hopper). It is connected to a control rod, or "stylus arm" which wiggles along with its maneuverings. This stylus arm is in turn either connected to a crystal against which it vibrates, causing voltages to appear across it, or it in some way moves a coil through a magnetic field, cutting lines of force, and again causing voltages to arise...
Kookie Pedigree. As the museum and Seitz's excellent commentary show, the assemblers have a distinguished, somewhat wood, spires, brush and rod plus a graceful fivesome of wheels by Ettore Colla. kookie, pedigree. One ancestor is Picasso, who in 1912 painted a cubist picture of ordinary objects, threw in the letters J O U (to indicate journal, and hence day-to-day experience), pasted on some oilcloth with a chair-cane pattern, and finally framed the whole thing with a piece of rope. Picasso was creating no ordinary still life: he arranged his painted objects just as the later...