Word: shapiros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After two committee meetings, Daley massed the faithful at a press conference in Chicago's Sherman House and introduced the candidates who were ultimately selected. Lieut. Governor Samuel Shapiro, 60, a stocky, reticent campaigner, will go for the governorship, while Attorney General William G. Clark, 43, will have the unenviable task of running against Dirksen. Why had Stevenson been overlooked? "He's already got a job," said Daley. As for Shriver, who is also fully employed running the poverty program, the Kennedy brother-in-law could console himself with reports that he too may have...
Last year, during two intervals when Mercury and Earth were on opposite sides of the sun, a team led by Physicist Irwin Shapiro bounced high-frequency signals from M.I.T.'s exceptionally precise Haystack radar antenna off the planet Mercury. On their way to and from Mercury, the signals, which travel at the speed of light, had to pass close to the sun. During these passages, according to the Einstein equations, solar gravity should have actually slowed them down, lengthening their 23-minute round-trip time to Mercury by one five-thousandth of a second...
...Mercury's surface irregularity had to be calculated; round-trip time to a Mercurial valley would be longer than to a mountaintop. It was also essential for the researchers to screen out any extraneous radio noise that might interfere with the attenuated, incredibly weak return signals, which, Shapiro says, had "less than a thousandth of the power that is expended by a housefly walking up a wall at a speed of one millimeter a century...
Test results, which Shapiro regards as only preliminary, could be inaccurate by as much as 20%, and still leave some room for doubt about relativity. But refinements in the radar technique could soon reduce the uncertainty to less than 1%, he says, and further confirm or definitely overthrow Einstein's general relativity...
...Crimson Key Society has elected the following officers for 1968-69: Kenneth K. Tucker '69, of Eliot House and Jenkintown, Pa., president; Robert M. Jenkins '69, of Quincy House and Rediands, Cal., vice president; William H. West '69, of of Eliot House and Memphis. Tenn., secretary; and Mare Julian Shapiro '69, of Leverett House and Houston, Tex., treasurer...