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Since they live in a town famed for science, the students of Tennessee's Oak Ridge High School might have been expected to have some pretty flattering things to say about scientists. But when Science Teacher J. R. Blair asked his 14 to 16-year-old pupils to write down their notions of what a scientist is and does, he got some disconcerting answers...
...British thermonuclear scientists do not say flatly that they are ahead of their U.S. colleagues, but Dr. Thonemann, master of ZETA, points out that with a small thermonuclear doughnut it is hard to keep the pinch away from the walls for long. "You have to go fairly big," he says, "if you want to put up temperature and put up containment time too." The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission apparently agrees with this reasoning; it is building at Princeton, N.J. a very large thermonuclear device, a "Stellarator," which is scheduled to start operation...
...Taking on the Chicago Theological Seminary, the Herald last year leaped into the fight that saved Architect Frank Lloyd Wright's famed Robie House from demolition to make way for a dormitory. As circulation hit 8,500-350% more than the old Herald-Publisher Sagan was able to say: "The paper is worth ten times what we paid...
...Long ranked as Europe's darkest museum, the Prado has begun the long-overdue installation of a scientific scheme of lighting (mixture of blue, yellow and rose neon to approximate sunlight). Predicted Prado Director Fernando Alvarez de Sotomayor: "By next year I think we will be able to say, 'Now the whole museum is illuminated...
...month ago, has since slipped to a respectable third (behind Detroit's George Yardley and Syracuse's Dolph Schayes). For these deeds Pettit gets about $20,000 a year from the Hawks, and the devout admiration of St. Louis fans. If he stays in one piece, say the experts, Bob Pettit may turn out to be the greatest player in the history of the game. Even St. Louis Captain Chuck Share's two-year-old daughter Susie realizes who is really leading her daddy's team into basketball's World Series this spring. Susie...