Word: tunnelled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...officer, with Nasser as witness. He later divorced her and married a nurse he met while hospitalized with appendicitis; he has never seen a son by that first marriage. One reason for his impulsiveness and eccentricity, apparently, is that the handsome, introspective Libyan soldier sees the world through the tunnel vision of a True Believer. "My life is clear," he announced not long ago. "I am married. I pray and fast and perform my duties as a Moslem believer. I don't smoke or drink, and I read the Koran whenever I have the chance, especially at time...
...Accelerator Laboratory at Batavia, Ill. Crowds of curious spectators hovered anxiously around the main control room, watching the meters and oscilloscope screens. On the screens, a narrow band of light-representing the electrical energy in a beam of speeding subatomic particles inside the atom smasher's doughnut-shaped tunnel-edged toward a telltale marking. The room became strangely silent. Then someone exclaimed, "There it is!" and wild cheering broke...
Fouled Tube. For a while, it looked as if Wilson might have to wait a long time to use those special glasses. In what turned out to be an expensive economy measure, Batavia's builders had decided not to air-condition the main tunnel of the $250 million machine. As a result, warm, humid air seeped into the tunnel last summer, and water condensed inside the coils of the 1,000 giant magnets that bend and focus the atom smasher's proton "bullets" as they race around this circular race track at speeds close to that of light...
Another major headache for Wilson was caused by debris left in the 2-in.-by-5-in. vacuum tube through which the protons travel inside the tunnel; the tube must be free of dust arid debris so that the speeding protons do not prematurely lose their energy in accidental collisions. Trouble was, workmen who removed the magnets left behind metal chips and other stray objects that fouled the tube. NAL scientists briefly considered recalling the tiny ferret that had helped cleanse the accelerator's subsidiary tube systems of debris (TIME, Oct. 4). But they eventually settled on a more...
...Portuguese commander in Mozambique is a friend of American General William Westmoreland," who formerly headed the U.S. Vietnam effort, Van Lierop said, "Like Westmoreland, he is always speaking of the light at the end of the tunnel...