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With so many possibilities for "redevelopment" in every part of Cambridge cviic leaders say that Cambridge need not fall into the gradual decay of a static industrial city...
...Static on your favorite radio program may be caused by the activity of gases on the sun, according to Hendrik C. van de Hulst, speaker at the University Observatory last night. Radio waves went off by the gases interfere with transmission here, Van de Hulst said...
...Fire & Light. Another characteristic of radiation is its ability to ionize the air, allowing the escape of static electricity. This is important in many industries where static charges are troublesome or create a fire hazard. And in electronics it is often desirable to ionize the interior of a tube. Fluorescent lamps, for instance, light up more quickly if radioactivity has prepared a path for the current...
...ideological conflict with Russia is concerned, Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, said that "time is on our side." "If we can avoid a police state--McCarthyism--we may well have a fairly pleasant period of peace ahead of us. Russia has frozen itself into a static state, while we have the fundamental strength and resiliency of self-government behind...
...Smoothly tanned or well-made-up stock-ingless legs are customary in the spring . . . Sunbathing in public, lounging on steps, sprawling on the grass--these aren't Good Ideas . . . Eat where people don't mind your eating. In the far reaches of the library, potato chips sound like static on a 1932 radio . . . Classes begin at seven past the hour; lectures are not like continuous movies, so don't come into a lecture in the middle . . . Radcliffe in the spring is lovely . . . But the Radcliffe Yard is not Coney Island . . . Radcliffe girls ought to look like ladies; it is imperative...