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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long as man stays well down inside the atmosphere, he is protected from the buffetings of space. But what happens when he goes beyond this protection, as he probably soon will, in his high-flying airplanes and higher-flying rockets? For one thing, powerful cosmic rays will strike him oftener. Scientists have a lot to learn about cosmic rays, and much of what they already do know is carefully enfogged in military secrecy. But last week came two hints of what the scientists...
...Lima, Peru, in a Navy Bag packed with special instruments. He was hunting neutrons, those subtle particles that slip into atomic nuclei and often disrupt them with bangs of radiation. He found plenty of neutrons. The higher he flew the more he found. They were not invaders from space, his studies told him, but were spattered out of atmospheric nuclei struck by cosmic rays...
Meteor Measuring. B295 cannot fly above the effective top of the atmosphere, and rockets, so far, have not stayed up long enough to be thoroughly bombarded by free-striking cosmic rays. But meteors have been cruising through space without atmospheric protection for millions, perhaps billions, of years. If examined soon after they hit the earth, they should show the worst that cosmic rays...
...when a big, detonating "fireball" from space streaked across the Midwest last Feb. 18, the Chicago Institute for Nuclear Studies wanted a sample of it, and Dr. Lincoln LaPaz, meteorite hunter of the University of New Mexico, set out to trace one. It took him two months to find several fragments in Norton County, Kans. One of them weighed 130 Ibs. and was made of stony material mixed with globules of nickel and iron...
Twice married, John first carried his growing family about with him in a caravan. He made a habit of dropping in on gypsy encampments, and learned some gypsy dialects. The gypsies represented everything .his father had tried to warn him against, and he devotes more space in his autobiography to happy memories of the gypsies than to his own children, with whom he was rather strict...