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...French microscope at the Toulouse Electron Optics Laboratory is housed in a shining aluminum sphere 78 ft. in diameter. Professor Gaston Dupouy, head of the laboratory and the microscope's chief operator, explains that he protects bacteria by enclosing them in a tiny air-filled cell that fits on the microscope's stage. The cell has two windows, one on the top, the other on the bottom, which are covered with collodion film less than four-millionths of an inch thick. The windows are so small (four-thousandths of an inch in diameter) that this gossamer stuff...
...volt electrons of ordinary microscopes are not powerful enough to penetrate the two layers of film and the plump, water-filled bodies of healthy bacteria. So the upper part of Dupouy's sphere is filled with a powerful accelerator that delivers a beam of million-volt electrons. They are tricky and dangerous to handle, but carefully measured bursts of them pass through living bacteria and make meaningful shadow pictures of their insides, magnified 25,000 times. The bacteria are little the worse for their experience. Dupouy testified almost affectionately that when they are taken out of the formidable microscope...
...been a deterioration in relations that we are the first to deplore. None of us could have suspected the misinterpretation given our pastoral letter. We are the first to condemn such distortions of truth. We do not say that there have been no imprudent acts in the ecclesiastical sphere. We acknowledge them. To this end, we propose 1) to remind the priests to cooperate and try to avoid even the slightest cause for friction with the authorities, and 2) to study the government's suggestions very carefully...
...influential heyday, Boston Industrialist Bernard Goldfine, now finished with a three-month stretch for contempt of court and adjudged psychologically incompetent to stand trial on a tax evasion rap, tried to extend his sphere of largesse beyond Presidential Aide Sherman Adams. Among other grand gestures, Goldfine once sent every state Governor a bolt of costly vicuna fabric turned out in his own mills. One Governor who never returned the gift was Michigan Democrat G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams, Jack Kennedy's new Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. Last week, at a farewell party thrown for him by Michigan...
...Byzantine Emperor Anastasius I in 494: "Two there are, august Emperor, by which this world is ruled on title of original and sovereign right-the consecrated authority of the priesthood and the royal power." This, says Father Murray, established a "freedom of the church" in the spiritual sphere that served to limit the power of government on the one hand, and on the other brought the moral consensus of the people to bear upon the King...