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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problem drinkers. Not long ago the typical company damned the alcoholic worker as a weak-willed degenerate, and fired him instead of helping him. But no more. Last week in Manhattan, at a symposium sponsored by the National Council on Alcoholism, doctors and officials from two dozen blue-ribbon U.S. companies, including IBM, RCA and Esso, agreed that the corporation can cure the alcoholic, told how it is being done...
...This oriented Lunik's other end to point roughly toward the moon. Then the first optical device shut off, and a second device took over, centered Lunik's axis exactly on the moon's disk and kept it there. A cover opened, exposing the lenses of two cameras, one of them magnifying the moon 2½ times as much as the other...
This year's Nobel Prize in physics (worth $42,606) went last week to two professors of the University of California at Berkeley, Emilio Segre, 54, and Owen Chamberlain, 39. In 1955 they headed a team that found the long-sought antiprotons, key particles of the stranger-than-fiction world of antimatter (TIME, Oct. 31, 1955 et seq.). Antiprotons, which the Segre-Chamberlain team identified in a beam of subatomic debris created by Berkeley's 6.2-billion-volt bevatron, have the mass of ordinary protons but carry negative electric charges instead of positive charges. When a proton hits...
...Charles University, Prague, the first Czechoslovak to win a Nobel Prize. The award came as much-belated recognition for his discovery of polarography, a delicate electrical method of chemical analysis. It works by measuring the properties of ions, and can detect slight traces of metals in a drop or two of a complex solution. Discovered in 1925, polarography is still used all over the world by analytical chemists...
Still Life. In San Francisco, U.S. Revenooer Jack Courtney investigated a cache of illegal moonshine in Chinatown, emptied three 5-gal. pickle jars of the grog down a drain, found that the dregs consisted of two chickens, two hawks and a monkey...