Word: stacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surprised reporters followed Hagerty to the President's office for Ike's first such unscheduled news conference.* They found President Eisenhower waiting behind his desk, a drawer half open to support a stack of note cards scrawled on in heavy black grease pencil...
...helium nucleus, most powerful particle ever trapped, crashed into a 200-lb. stack of 300 silver bromide photographic plates suspended beneath a balloon that drifted last fall for eight hours at 116,000 ft. over Minnesota. The particle touched off a shower of electrons that streaked the plates with an expanding forest of lines. One puzzling fact: the intruder bumped into two silver or bromine nuclei, creating six mesons in the first collision and 64 in the second. Theoretically, the first collision should have produced more-not fewer-mesons than the second. Hunting for an explanation, Minnesota scientists are still...
...Boss Harry Cohn fumed with the king-sized wrath of the last Hollywood despot who still runs the studio he built. The year was 1953, the object of his wrath Rita Hayworth, Columbia's reigning love goddess; Rita had flounced out and left the studio with a costly stack of properties bought just for her. Before Cohn's desk, underlings watched the riding crop and awaited the great man's edict. If the studio only had another big female star, he grumbled, she could be used to bludgeon Hayworth into submission, or, if it came to that...
Telephone Conference. Bell Telephone ,aboratories, Inc. has developed a new telephone system that permits five executives to confer at one time when a code number is dialed. The system, using no operators, can handle 90 different combinations, can also stack up to three incoming calls on a busy phone and ring through in order of placement, permits any one of the conferees to call someone outside and bring him into the conference...
Rhodes Scholar Art Siler, who captained last year's Crimson varsity, has a distinct edge in his specialty, the discus, as he faces Elis Dick Winterbauer and Bill Stack, neither of whom has come within ten feet of his best toss. In the shot, however, Winterbauer and another Yale freshman, Bill Markel, rate the edge...