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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...
...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...
...violation of the citrus code" (which prohibits producers from adding anything to fresh juice), called the deed "a reflection on the integrity of the entire industry." The Florida Citrus Commission called for punishment of Tropicana "in a degree commensurate with the seriousness of the offenses." Tropicana President Anthony T. Rossi admitted that he had ordered cane sugar syrup added to about half of a 400,000-gal. shipment bound for New York "in a moment of weakness and temptation" because the juice was more tart than usual. He added that Tropicana will not contest the five charges in the state...
...history's haze. Some romantic gin-and-vermouth scholars say it was St. Martin of Tours, patron of tosspots. Others hold that a tipsy barkeep at San Francisco's Palace Hotel happened on the formula by accident before World War I. The Italian vermouth company, Martini & Rossi, is sometimes credited with first honors, and an 1862 bartender's manual describes a "martinez" which contains the basic ingredient but adds maraschino and bitters. Whatever its origin, there is no doubt that the martini is America's favorite cocktail...
...FRANK ROSSI...