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...capitalist-praising Zatopek will not compete again until he recovers from a sprained ankle (a fortnight ago, Iron-Man Zatopek ran a poor fifth in a 5,000-meter race in Prague). The mystery, however, was not solved by one bad showing of the Communists' greatest Olympics record-smasher (in the 5,000-and 10,000-meter runs, and the 26-mile, 385-yd. marathon). Only Zatopek's presence and performance in the Olympics will disclose whether his ailment, as diagnosed by his Red mentors, is a sprained ankle or a sprained tongue...
...reactor-probably of a similar design, and therefore behind U.S. models-will go into action within a year and will provide power on a competitive cost basis with coal-fed plants. The Russians also said that they are building the world's biggest atom smasher, one that will hurl protons (hydrogen nuclei) with energies as high as 10 billion volts against the nuclei of target atoms, enabling Soviet scientists to study the forces binding the atoms. In another paper read at Geneva, the Russians claimed to have discovered, by using radioactive isotopes as tracers, that plants photosynthesize protein...
Because of a faulty transformer, officials fear they may not be able to crank up the atom smasher again if they let it stop before new parts arrive next month. Two men shifts have been assigned to the temperamental cyclotron on a 24-hour guard: one man is never allowed alone in the same room with the high voltage instrument...
Swindletron. Drs. Luis W. Alvarez and John R. Woodyard of the University of California are building a new-type atom-smasher that they call a "swindletron" because it seems to get something for nothing. At one end of a 6-ft. vacuum tube, protons (hydrogen atoms stripped of their single electrons) are shot at comparatively low speed (30,000 volts) through a thin, uncharged disk of aluminum foil. While passing through it, many of them pick up two electrons, becoming negatively charged hydrogen atoms. Next, they are attracted to a second disk of foil that is charged positively...
...meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Boulder, Colo., Atom-Smasher Enrico Fermi speculated on the origin of cosmic rays. The high-speed cosmic particles, packed with destructive energy and dangerous for tomorrow's rocketeers, may have wandered into the earth's galaxy from the far reaches of space, said Dr. Fermi. Geologic ages ago, they drifted into the weak, galactic magnetic field. And weak though that field is, it has had millions of years to kick the particles up to a dangerous speed. Space travelers will brave them at their peril...