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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Until the very last minute, his newly won friends worked furiously to fill up the gaps in Abdie's American background. He was taught about George Washington's cherry tree, taken to the Air Force snack bar and instructed in ice-cream sundaes. There was an eleventh-hour panic when it was discovered that he knew nothing about Paul Revere. But he worked hard and remembered it all. Said Bardos: "He has a mind like a sponge...
Fund raisers will also have a chance to view three colored slide shows recently prepared by members of the Program staff to help "sell" the drive. Fifty sets of slides have been ordered on "A Matter of Curiosity," depicting scientific research at the University; "The Money Tree," a set of pictures on the future of the Program; and "The Future of Harvard," a documentary of the "new Harvard." The photographs will be used chiefly by area chairmen in personal alumni contacts...
...Payne 6f Maine," parodied Pine Tree State Democrats on the eve of last week's early-bird election, "is mainly on the wane." But not even Democrats, as the results rolled in, were prepared for the size of their gain. Not only did Frederick G. Payne lose, as expected, to lanky (6 ft. 4 in., 185 Ibs.) bow-tied Governor Edmund Sixtus Muskie, 44, the golden boy of Maine politics; Muskie, as the state's first popularly elected Democratic Senator, got double the plurality that he expected. And a train of Maine Democrats followed Muskie into power. Items...
FULTON, KY. (pop. 4,800), tree-lined streets, courthouse in square, frequently called Kentucky's "southernmost city" because of location on Tennessee state line, plantation tradition, Deep South accents. Named for Steamboat Inventor Robert Fulton but grew up around important, longtime Illinois Central Railroad junction; lately pressing industrialization campaign-WE WANT INDUSTRY...
...ions (charged particles), Lawrence calculated that they could be made to whirl progressively faster in a closed chamber, reaching great speed and high voltages. They could then smash atoms and transmute elements. He first demonstrated this phenomenon with a crude but spectacular Rube Goldbergish kit: a kitchen chair, clothes tree, 4-in. electromagnet, pie-sized vacuum chamber made of glass, brass and sealing wax, all put together for $25. When he hooked this odd gizmo up to an ordinary electric socket, atoms whirled around faster than those emitted by radium...