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Beleaguered Quemoy is as much beleaguered by the beleaguered use of the word beleaguered as it is by the Communists...
...first word came of the shot's success, Project Pioneer's scientists, technicians and observers threw off the guarded reserve that they had built up over months of missile woes, were all but hysterical with joy. When Cape Canaveral's pencil-mustached Major General Donald Yates walked into a press conference, newsmen rose and applauded. In Hawthorne, Calif., at the Data Reduction Center of Ramo-Wooldridge's Space Technology Laboratories (the Air Force's top moon-probe contractor), Air Force officers and civilians whooped and pounded one another. In the Pentagon, top brass cheerfully poured...
...week's end Dulles got the word that Red China was extending its Quemoy cease-fire for another fortnight. "This is not a betrayal," Red China's local commanders felt it necessary to assure their troops in a special proclamation. "This is a racial righteousness. We must draw a clear-cut line between the Chinese and the Americans." The crude Communist pitch: to split Chinese Nationalists off from the U.S. But whatever Red China's reasons for cease-fire's extension, the first fact about Quemoy was that Red China, after 44 days of shelling...
...Baker had submitted the play to the Theater Guild, and Wolfe considered himself a buding dramatist: "I am a slave to the thing; my mind is filled with it night and day. I find I have become an evesdropper, I listen to every conversation I hear, I memorize every word I hear people say, in the way they say it. I find myself studying every move, every gesture, every expression, trying to see what it means dramatically...
According to Livingston, the electron accelerator is not properly an "accelerator" in the normal sense of the word. An experiment may start with electrons at .99 the speed of light and increase the velocity to .99999 the speed of light--not too great a change in percentage terms. What does increase dramatically is the energy (and the mass). At the beginning of an experiment, a beam of electrons may have a rest energy of 1/2 million electron volts; it is directed through a linear "pre-accelerator" (or "injector") where the energy is increased to 20 million electron volts. Then...