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Detecting neutrinos with ordinary instruments is like catching bats with a steam shovel. Since they carry no electric charge and are vanishingly small, they pay little attention to matter. The average neutrino can probably pass through billions or trillions of miles of dense material without being stopped by it. Neutrons do, however, "interact" slightly with protons; so there is a very small chance that if a great many neutrinos pass through a material rich in protons, a few of them will be intercepted in a way that can be detected...
...will be the first engineer in 41 years to head Anaconda, the world's biggest copper mining concern and No. 1 U.S. manganese producer. A graduate of the Michigan State College of Mining and Technology, Weed started at the bottom of a mine as a pick-and-shovel hand in 1911, later managed copper properties throughout Michigan, Arizona and Mexico. In 1935 he was named president of Cananea Consolidated Copper Co., a Mexican subsidiary of Ana conda, has been a vice president of the parent company since...
Slip-Stick Specialist. Fangio's swift, shovel-nosed, 34-liter Ferrari had all the power and acceleration a skillful driver needs, but its conventional drum-and-shoe brakes were not designed for that demanding course. The best of Fangio's competitors had cars that seemed better fitted. Former British Champion Mike Hawthorn was at the wheel of a big (20 cc. more displacement than the Ferrari), D-type Jaguar fitted out with husky disc brakes, a type relatively unaffected by heat. Current British Champ Stirling Moss was driving a light (2.9-liter), cat-quick Aston Martin, also with...
While Mayor Edward J. Sullivan manned a shovel and truck to help clear the streets and crosswalks of Harvard Square, Police Lt. Joseph P. Breen ordered 70 cars removed from Massachusetts Avenue, and Police Chief Patrick F. Ready demanded the towing of another 25 from the Central Square area...
...much of his time on inspection tours of his growing empire. He pays his workers well, expects everyone-big and little-to bend to the job. Driving along a dusty farm road one day, the story goes, Davis ordered his chauffeur to stop beside a laborer leaning on his shovel. Said Davis: "Are you supposed to be working for me?" Drawled the man: "Yes, sir. I sure am." "No, you're not," roared Davis. "You're not sweating...