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...mammoth machine is one of the most complex ever devised by man. But before the National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, III., goes into operation, the world's largest atom smasher is getting some vital help from one of the smallest workers available: a friendly, 15-in.-long ferret named Felicia...
...fans, got spanked 6-3, 6-2 by top-seeded Billie Jean King in the semifinals. Then the rains came, delaying play and dissipating interest. For all its vicissitudes, though, the 1971 Open produced a winner whom former U.S. Champion Jack Kramer pronounced "a new superstar." Serene Smasher. Stan Smith, a lanky, mustachioed blond, became the second American in 16 years to win the U.S. title.* At 24, and playing the best tennis of his career, he has defeated most of the world's top players. In Tokyo in December, he knocked off both Laver and Rosewall...
...Bevatron, heavy ions could not be accelerated enough even to penetrate the skin.) In addition, scientists may some day create stable, superheavy elements by bombarding uranium with heavy ions. To bring this goal closer, Berkeley is now developing its one-two punch, connecting the Bevatron with another atom smasher, the Heavy Ion Linear Accelerator, 550 ft. away, to achieve even higher energy levels...
...strange new pride of the prairie is the world's largest and most powerful atom smasher. After 21 years of painstaking construction, it is scheduled to begin its first trials in the next few weeks. Batavia's planners are convinced that by fall, actual experiments in the giant particle accelerator will lead to important new insights into the basic structure of the atom and, indeed, the fundamental mysteries of the universe...
...recently had its power increased to 22 billion electron volts.* The other, more common form is the circular accelerator, which whips particles round a ring-shaped tunnel to get them up to speed. With the monster at Batavia not yet in operation, the world's most powerful atom smasher is the Soviets' 76 billion-electron-volt accelerator near Moscow. As in some other circular accelerators, Batavia's "bullets" are protons. The arsenal that provides them is a device called a Cockcroft-Walton accelerator (named after two British physicists), which produces protons by boiling electrons off hydrogen atoms...