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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Using this system of "ion synthesis." R.P.I, chemists have taken nitrogen dioxide gas (NO2) and ionized it by squirting it against an electrically charged metal plate at one end of a vacuum tube. As soon as the gas molecules pick up electric charges, they respond to electrical forces and are whisked through a charged grid at a predetermined speed. After traveling a short distance, they hit molecules of vaporized benzene (C6H6) and stick to them, forming nitrobenzene (C6H5NO2). The hydrogen atoms left out of the combination form gaseous hydrogen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chemistry: Ion Synthesis Makes Better Rocket Fuels | 12/7/1962 | See Source »

Filling a Vacuum. Piraiki-Patraiki's profit is not without honor in Greece. Impressed by the company's export successes, the Greek government is offering a cash reward to farmers who switch from growing wheat to cotton so that Greek mills will have more textiles to sell abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greece: Counting on Cotton | 12/7/1962 | See Source »

Teachers began to move into this leadership vacuum on Oct. 1, the day after the Meredith riot, when some 40 of them volunteered statements to the FBI. They created a committee of nine, chaired by-Classicist William Willis, to prod the administration to action against rioters. From the 60-odd members of the Ole Miss chapter of the American Association of University Professors came a resolution denouncing Mississippi newspapers for distorted riot reports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Can the Faculty Save Ole Miss? | 11/16/1962 | See Source »

...town and you've got this gala to go to at night, so you put the hair piece in a bag and take it with you, and with four hairpins you've got your elegance." Upkeep is nominal; an occasional dusting or a once-over with the vacuum keeps the topknot topnotch. And many of Adrian's wiglets, unlike the French designs, go up and out in living color. Although "Les Plumes" fans out to three all-brunette coils, "Celestial Arc" works its spectral way from pale lavender on the top to ash blond at the lower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: A Haughty Year | 9/14/1962 | See Source »

Into that vacuum stepped Louis Harris, pet political pollster both to Jack Kennedy and to Wagner. Harris, who considers himself less a vote sampler than a political analyst, soon got to analyzing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: The Pollster-Picked Candidate | 9/7/1962 | See Source »

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