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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Robert V. Pound, professor of Physics, has proved a fundamental postulate of Einstein's theory of relativity...
Pound was not the only scientist to wonder about the Principle of Equivalence. In November, 1962, Pound received a letter from V. P. Lyadov of Kazan State University in Russia. Lyadov, who predicted a ten per cent deviation from Einstein's Theory, postulated that acceleration and gravitation are two different things. Pound's new results support Einstein...
...Carlo V. Mantini, the building superintendent, banned trick-or-treating because there was "no way of controlling what kids in costume will be in the building"--whether children of Harvard students or of neighborhood residents...
Jamaica's galloping birth rate (40 per 1,000 v. 22 per 1,000 in the U.S.) will boost the Connecticut-sized island's population 18% to nearly 2,000,000 by 1970. Emigration to Britain, formerly Jamaica's main outlet, has been cut off, which means more food, more jobs must be found. As matters stand, Jamaica cannot feed even its present population, has spent some $30 million to import food in the first six months this year...
...black Porsche sports car, a worn set of Shakespeare, an Egyptian statue, a dagger that had been used in a Philip pine murder and a rapidly expanding reputation as one of the busiest young legal scholars in the business. Manning's former boss, Yale Law Dean Eugene V. Rostow, had already given warning of the prodigy he was sending west: "Manning is one of the shiniest fish ever to come out of the sea. He has the drive, charm and quickness to do anything...