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...turn into a battle between two Americans, Harvard captain Albie Gordon and Yale sophomore Jim Stack. The Crimson's Joel Landau is favored in the high hurdles over Rex Van Rossum of Oxford, and either Landau or Yale's Jay Luck should take the lows. The 4 x 110 relay should go to the Americans. Either Blodgett or Yale freshman Oakley Andrews should easily win the pole vault, since Cambridge's Stuart Downhill, the best Englishman, has done only 12 ft., 5 1/2 in. Bill Markle of Yale should finish first in the shot put and his teammate Mike Pyle...
...Derived by Swiss Mathematician Jakob Bernoulli (1654-1705), from the equation (x²+y²)² = a²(x...
...nuclear physicist who, despite being emotional about his specialty (in 1946 he wrote a grim, prophetic, one-act play about flocks of satellite bombs orbiting 800 miles above the doomed earth), pioneered in missile programs as chief scientist (1950-51) of the Air Force, helped develop the Polaris and X-17 missiles as research director of Lockheed Aircraft Corp.'s missile-systems division, became a Lockheed vice president last March; of a brain hemorrhage; in Washington...
Galveston's huge radar domes, one for scanning the sky to detect enemy targets, the other for locking onto them and tracking them, at first presented another hazard: a spillover of X rays. Several men were found to have been overexposed before this fact was detected, but none have shown any ill effects. The danger was eliminated by installing extra lead shielding for the klystron tubes in the transmitters. Future tubes will be made with the shielding built...
...spheres, outside which was the Unmoved Mover who kept the whole machinery turning. To make the heavens jibe with Aristotle, the Alexandrian astronomer Ptolemy, in the 2nd century A.D., posited a universe of wheels within wheels called epicycles. Of this system, the best comment is perhaps that of Alphonso X of Castile, who said: "If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I should have recommended something simpler...