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...General Theory of Relativity that Albert Einstein published in 1916 pro posed nothing less than an all-embrac ing theory of gravity. Over the years, as scientists devised increasingly subtle experiments to test Einstein's predictions, the General Theory withstood all challenges But no one was able to check Einstein's conclusion that massive celestial bodies accelerating in space or undergoing cataclysmic events should give off gravitational radiation, a form of energy similar to radio waves that travels at the speed of light. This week, after more than a decade of work, University of Maryland Physicist Joseph Weber...
Lawn tennis had withstood the vicissitudes of the war better than any other sport, and as spring returned, undergrads pulled on their white flannel trousers for a quick set on the windy afternnoons...
There has never been anything objectionable, however, or timid either, about the style of Argyll and Sutherland fighting. The regiment became famous throughout the empire when a London Times correspondent in 1854 sent back a dispatch on "the thin red line" of Argylls, standing two deep, that withstood a Russian charge at Balaklava in the Crimean War. When the outnumbered troops started to move forward to fight it out hand to hand, their commander, General Sir Colin Campbell, halted them only by bellowing out: "Ninety-third! Ninety-third! Damn all that eagerness...
...latest reminder of the city's vulnerability came last month when the regime of Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht began requiring West Germans to buy transit visas and pay cargo taxes when traveling or moving goods across East German territory to West Berlin. For a city that withstood an all-out Communist blockade in 1948-49, Ulbricht's new restrictions in themselves are little more than a nuisance. Nonetheless, they dramatized anew the perilous state of West Berlin's economic links-a fact that has frightened off both industry and labor...
...barriers have withstood the test of flying feet as stubbornly as Armin Hary's world record of 10 sec. flat for the 100-meter dash-set by the West German Olympian in 1960 and tied since by nine other sprinters. Last week Hary's Deutsche mark was not only broken but absolutely devalued at the A.A.U. championship in Sacramento, Calif. In eight 100-meter races-four heats, two semifinals, the final, and a runoff for one berth in this week's Olympic trials-no fewer than ten competitors equaled Hary's time, and three were officially...