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...heart of the Bell optical maser is a rod of synthetic ruby ½ in. in diameter and 1½ in. long. It is chiefly aluminum oxide, but atoms of chromium replace a small amount of the aluminum, and these atoms cause the maser action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fantastic Red Spot | 10/17/1960 | See Source »

...Glendale, Calif, contains a red-tailed hawk that eats horsemeat, a sinister 8-ft. anaconda, hordes of white rats, a map of every ant colony in the vicinity and George Cassell, 28, an exuberant young man who grew up at the foot of Mt. Shasta with a trout rod in his hand, football on his mind and no thought of study. As it turned, out, he was destined to make Room 455 just about the most popular teen-age hangout in Glendale. Since he teaches biology-one of the deadlier subjects in U.S. high schools-this is going some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: How to Teach Biology | 10/10/1960 | See Source »

...whether we want a loose woman reigning over us or a fallen woman in our midst." The 1938 hurricane demonstrated that the fall was imminent, and the bronze Genius was taken down to be melted into wartime scrap in 1942. In her place today stands a lonely lightning rod...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Follies Family | 9/5/1960 | See Source »

...Australia turned the finals of the U.S. national doubles championship in Chestnut Hill, Mass, into an intramural match as Neale Fraser and Roy Emerson defeated Rod Laver and Bob Mark by the score...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Sep. 5, 1960 | 9/5/1960 | See Source »

...those who despaired of getting a bearing from the classical indicators, there was a handful of more modest straws to seize. Wheels, Inc., a Chicago auto-leasing firm, suggested last week that a good measuring rod of the economy is the distance a traveling salesman has to drive to make a sale-the farther the worse. Reported Wheels: salesmen drove 10% farther for each sale in the first half of 1960. Los Angeles' Security First National Bank, which carefully tots the number of help-wanted ads in local newspapers as a telling business index, reported that July ads were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Cautious | 8/29/1960 | See Source »

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