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...town of Cauterets in the Pyrenees Mayor Charles Fourtine, despondent over the insults hurled at him by angry citizens who felt that it was up to him to keep the town adequately supplied with bread, climbed a power pylon and killed himself by grasping a 100,000-volt high-tension wire...
Like the identification nearly a year ago of the antiproton (TIME, Oct. 31), the work was done with the Berkeley Bevatron, the world's most powerful particle accelerator, and a long train of auxiliary apparatus. The Bevatron's beam of 6.2 billion-volt protons was shot into a beryllium target. Out of the target came a secondary beam of assorted atomic debris. The particles with a negative charge, separated from the rest by the Bevatron's strong magnetic field, were mostly mesons. Among them were a few antiprotons (negative protons) formed when the Bevatron's powerful...
Knockout Performance. In Hamlin, N.Y., during a firemen's parade, Drum Major Irving Gillam gave his baton an especially high toss, watched for it to come down, saw sparks fall instead as the baton fused to a 5,000-volt power line, knocked out village electricity for an hour and a half...
...Stanford University has begun treating selected cancer patients with its six-million-volt "cancer gun," a linear electron accelerator that scientists hope will destroy cancer growths deep inside the body with high-energy X rays. Dr. Henry S. Kaplan, head of Stanford's Radiology Department, estimates it will take five to ten years to evaluate the benefits of the accelerator. Purpose of the device is to reach and treat deep-growing cancers with less damage than is caused by X rays...
Harvard and M.I.T. announced this week that the Atomic Energy Commission is treating them jointly to a 6 billion-volt electron synchrotron, which will be built in Cambridge. Cost: $6,500,000. Its electrons will be steered around a circular vacuum chamber 236 ft. in diameter by 48 powerful magnets, each 11 ft. long, and they will be nudged to enormous speed by 16 radio-frequency circuits, each with the power of a full-scale television transmitter...