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...crowd went wild as Gehrmann put on his usual sprint at the finish to go past Wilt in the last ten yards. The difference in time between the two runners was one tenth of a second, just as it had been the night before. A searchlight played on Gehrmann as he jogged around the track to the applause of the enthusiasts. Wilt walked along the outside of the boards hardly noticed. He showed no emotion--he was used to it by now and doubtlessly realized that the same thing would probably happen next week in the Millrose meet...
...corridor along the access roads should be free from hostile attack. Finally, the Reds accepted the U.N. assurance that flights over the protected zones would be limited "insofar as practicable." The U.N. is putting up orange, cerise and yellow balloons over the site to mark it by day, and searchlight beams to mark it by night, to avoid mishaps...
...Unseen Searchlight. Columbia's cyclotron yielded its first meson beam about a year ago, when Dr. Eugene T. Booth (now working on a secret Government project) was in charge of the great machine. Since then, the meson beam has played like an unseen searchlight around the flank of the cyclotron, lighting up dark corners of atomic physics. The mass of the quick-vanishing pi meson has been measured accurately, as well as its "spin," which is something like rotation. Dr. James Rainwater, the present boss of the cyclotron, is finding out what happens when mesons hit protons, neutrons...
Then, reflecting with pardonable equanimity that it had acted 33 "a powerful searchlight" on wrong doing during its 15 months of investigation, the committee members posed for some last photographs and went out of business...
Fruehauf designs for them. For example, during World War II Fruehauf made everything for the Army & Navy from front-line field hospitals to portable command posts and searchlight carriers. Fruehauf's latest model for the Government: a truck post office. It is being designed so that mail can be sorted en route, thus cut delivery time...