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...Edward Purcell, who was the first to detect the 21-cm. waves from cold hydrogen throughout space. Purcell explains that if intelligent aliens send messages to the earth, they will use a sort of reversed cipher that is deliberately made easy to translate. Their first problem will be to select the proper radio frequency: there is no use picking one at random. Unless listening earthlings know how to tune their receivers, they will hear nothing. Therefore, says Purcell, the aliens will select the 21-cm. waves, which are the sharpest and most universal radio waves that flash through space...
Fortnight ago word leaked out that another nation had joined the U.S., Britain, Russia and France in the world's select little club of atomic powers. But which? Some said Sweden. But last week the London Daily Express reported that the new member of the club is Israel. The story was diplomatically denied by Israel, but the word in Washington is that Israel indeed has begun to produce fissionable material-although it is still a considerable way from producing an atom bomb...
Under Sohn's proposal there would be no danger of either nation cheating, he explained, since the other might select one of the too-well-stocked regions for disarmament. There would be provisions to insure that arms could not be shifted from one region to another after the initial divisions had been made...
...result, "financial need will no longer determine room choices and assignments," the President declared. Scholarship students and other girls with limited incomes will be able to select regular doubles, large off-campus rooms, or dormitory singles without paying extra...
...past, many scholarship students and girls with limited incomes have found it necessary to live in economy doubles, low-priced rooms off-campus, or co-operative houses to keep costs at a minimum. Under the new policy, they will be able to select dormitory singles or larger rooms in off-campus houses without paying extra, Frances R. Brown, Dean of Residence and Student Affairs, pointed out Yesterday...