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...this snug foxhole, Reines will assemble a vast neutrino trap, designed at Cleveland's Case Institute. Even the most powerful cosmic rays do not penetrate to the depth of the gold mine, but the entire universe is believed to be swarming with neutrinos that will be deterred not at all by two miles of rock. Some of them are believed to carry unusual amounts of energy, and these fat neutrinos should be easier to detect than leaner ones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Physics: Foxhole for Neutrinos | 11/29/1963 | See Source »

...Odessa, the biggest of the trials involved one Comrade Kunyansky, chief engineer of the Defender of the Motherland knitted-goods factory. With two main accomplices, Kunyansky set up an undercover textile mill which, using government yarn, spun out 6,250 high-quality, snug-fitting women's sweaters that sold for 30 to 40 rubles each to budding Ukrainian sweater girls. The operation netted $169,400, was not discovered for seven months. Last week the three ringleaders were ordered to face a firing squad, and 23 of their employees were sent to prison. Almost as impressive as their caper were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Death for Hot Sweaters | 8/23/1963 | See Source »

...followed the practice of every president of Harvard since Cotton Mather, and kept out of politics. Faculty radicalism has scarcely existed during these ten years; despite the full-page ads to which readers of the New York Times are accustomed, most politically-minded Faculty members now seek a snug berth in the new Liberal Establishment. Consider the behavior of two who are still at Harvard: Samuel H. Beer, who once founded the Americans for Democratic Action, found a reason for supporting Edward M. Kennedy '54 in last fall's Senate campaign; and Seymour Harris has taken to playing Horatius...

Author: By Michael W. Schwartz, | Title: Harvard Politics: The Careless Young Men | 6/13/1963 | See Source »

...going to be snug," Briggs said...

Author: By Efrem Sigel, | Title: Humphrey Doermann Says '67 Acceptances Up by One Per Cent | 5/1/1963 | See Source »

...fish, coffee, shoes, and even, in this oft-steamy island paradise, beer. "Beer is unnecessary," said Fidel Castro, "in revolutionary Cuba." In their steady slide down the scale of living standards, Cubans heard last week that rationing would henceforth extend to clothing-shirts, trousers, dresses, and even to those snug slacks that Cuban women-and their men-love. Like any good Communist bureaucrat, the Maximum Leader an nounced through his Government Consolidated Products Enterprise that he was doing this so that clothes could be bought "in a just and equitable manner, avoiding speculation and hoarding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: They've Got Their Beards to Keep Them Warm | 3/8/1963 | See Source »

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