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Kennedy's findings should alter most theories about the thermal history of the earth, and help scientists learn more about how heat escapes from the earth's interior. In addition, the formula final ly establishes a correct relationship be tween a substance in its solid and liquid states, besides offering a new approach to studies of the melting process. In retrospect, Kennedy's discovery might seem obvious, but the startling truth is that generations of scientists overlooked it. "The profession must be full of asses," says Nobel Prize Chemist Willard Libby, discoverer of the carbon-14 dating...
...major drawback of the railroad route is that it would claim a significant number of M.I.T. laboratories. However, the consultants were not asked to choose be- tween the Brookline-Elm St. route and the railroad location; their assigned task was merely to find an alternative to Brookline-Elm that would limit job and residential displacement...
...condemned to death on the evidence of a phony ballistics expert. With the help of a New York City detective, Waite demonstrated that the prisoner was innocent and ballistics (as then practiced) was baloney. With admirable zeal, he set out to create a science from scratch. Be tween 1919 and 1923 he acquired data on almost every rifle, shotgun and side arm of recent manufacture, and simultaneously developed microscopic devices for examining gun barrels and comparing projectiles. Waite's methods were vindicated at the Sacco-Vanzetti trial, where the new instruments demonstrated irrefutably that a bullet from...
...also had a convicted Viet Cong terrorist shot in a Saigon marketplace, ordered all four army corps commanders to do likewise. Stirring unhappy memories of highhanded Mme. Nhu, the government slapped an 11 p.m. curfew on the capital in order to mute the blatant contrast be tween Saigon's hedonistic existence and the grim, grey life of the Communist-ridden countryside...
Silent Fuming. Martin said much more - notably, that there are major differences as well as similarities be tween the economies of 1929 and 1965 - but the rest was all but ignored in the furor that followed. The stock mar ket, uncertain and sliding for several weeks, plunged sharply: the Dow Jones industrial average fell 19 points in the three days after Martin's speech, dipped briefly below the psychologically im portant 900 mark, then closed the week at 900.87. Congressional leaders called for an investigation of the state of free-world economies. Lyndon Johnson at first fumed silently...