Word: simonizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...followed. In fact, Percy became so hot and flustered that, as he left the studio via a narrow hallway crowded by reporters, he collapsed--the victim of an unwelcome fainting spell. So much for the Illinois Advantage, as Percy calls himself in his current campaign against Democratic Congressman Paul Simon...
...adamant opponent to the Kemp-Roth tax policies. Since 1981, he's been a happy supply-sider. He's spoken favorably on the nuclear freeze, only to work against it in the Senate. His positions on arms control measures and Soviet-American summits similarly defy consistency. As a Simon advertisement notes. "If you feel strongly about arms control summits, then Charles Percy has a position for you. He's been for them and against them...
Carlo Rubbia was in a Milan cab, en route to Linate Airport last week and worrying about a possible Italian air-traffic controllers' strike. Suddenly the pop music on the taxi's radio was interrupted by a news bulletin: Rubbia and Simon van der Meer, his colleague at CERN, the great European nuclear research complex, had been jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics. At first the taxi driver did not believe his passenger's excited claims to be the man in the news. "But when I convinced him," Rubbia recalls, "he offered me a free ride...
...first nobody believed his proposal, particularly since it would require the conversion of the synchrotron into a particle collider, at a cost of $55 million. Rubbia's notions, however, had one staunch supporter: Simon van der Meer, a senior engineer at CERN. Van der Meer designed a device critical to the taming of the colliding beams in Rubbia's experiment. In 1979 CERN gave Rubbia and Van der Meer a go-ahead for their project, and by 1983 the three particles had been found...
...Simon & Schuster; 249 pages...