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...supercool atom smasher, operating at temperatures close to absolute zero (-460° F.), may be smaller and cheaper to build, and could operate on far less electrical power than conventional electromagnetic accelerators, said Midwestern Universities Research Association Physicist Dr. Cyril D. Curtis. By using such superconductive materials as niobium-tin alloy (TIME, March 3) instead of huge iron magnets, atom smashers now 1,200 ft. in diameter might be reduced to less than 550 ft., and construction and operation costs could be cut by 35%. Curtis' projection was underscored at the same A.P.S. session when Brookhaven National Laboratory...
That Madison Avenue has a tin pan ally has long been an open secret. When singing commercials first began to sound better than popular songs, most listeners concluded, reasonably enough, that popular songs had become worse (rock 'n' roll had come along). But a year or so later, the advertising arias began to sound unmistakably better than the TV programs they interrupted. Here was unquestionable evidence. TV programs could not have got any worse; therefore, the singing commercials had improved...
Subsidizing Deficits. Estimates are that since the Spanish conquest, some $200 billion worth of tin, silver and nitrates has been extracted from Bolivia, largely by absentee mine owners who took their wealth elsewhere. Bolivia's peasant revolution of 1952 led to the nationalization of the richest tin mines. But inefficient operation brought financial ruin. Mine machinery fell into disrepair. The demagogic leader of the tin miners' union, Juan Lechin, forced thousands of featherbedding new workers onto the government mine payrolls. Before nationalization, the mines produced 30,000 tons of tin each year; today they produce only...
Short-Term & Long-Term. The first order of business is short-term loans to put Bolivia's nationalized industries on their feet. The tin mines should get $6,500,000 for new equipment and to prospect for new ore deposits. One condition for the loans: the government must fire 5,000 featherbedding miners, devise a plan to relocate them in other jobs. Another loan of perhaps $5,000,000 would buy modern pumping and refining machinery for the state oil company and at least make a start toward rehabilitating the railroads...
...first politically unpopular step of making the mines more efficient. The miners are well armed and defiantly opposed to wholesale dismissals. However, President Paz Estenssoro, the man who led the 195 2 revolution, realizes that his movement will fail unless Bolivia solves its problems, and soon. Even the tin miners' Lechin, now the nation's Vice President, may understand that time is growing short. Visiting in Washington six weeks ago, Lechin wept publicly when the Inter-American Development Bank granted Bolivia a $10 million loan...