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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1951
Physicists Find Fast Way To Count Atomic Particles
Stanford, Calif. (U.P.)—Stanford physicists said today they have found a way to count atomic particles in a billionth of a second—a discovery so new they are not sure where it will lead them in atomic research.
The work, directed by Dr. Richard F. Post, research associate in the Stanford microwave laboratory, was developed through the use of "scintillation" counters, refined cousins of the well-known Geiger counter.
Post explained that atomic particles produce fluorescent twinklings when they pass through certain crystals or liquids. In some instances, he said, the flashes can be seen with the human eye. Luminous watch dials, for example, if examined with a hand lens in the dark, will show small random flashes on the painted figures.
Post uses a photomultiplier tube to pick up the minute flashes, which make an electrical signal. Through recordings, the count of particles at a given moment can be determined. The period of counting can be narrowed down to a billionth of a second. Post explained, by overloading the university's super-atom smasher up to 4,000 volts instead of the tube's normal load of 1,000 volts.
The more voltage used on the tube, the faster it will count particles, he said. The device is kept from burning out by leaving the overload on for only a millionth of a second.
Post said he hopes to make accurate determinations of the mass of atom particles by measuring their energy and speeds.
But what all this means to research scientists is impossible to fortell at present, he said.
He indicated, however, that it may lead to application of the scintillation counter technique to nuclear, elementary particle, and X-ray physics; to cancer research and diagnosis; and to military and industrial survey instruments.
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Minneapolis (U.P.)—A poll of Minnesota residents by the Minneapolis Tribune showed that 64 per cent of the people questioned favored increasing the work week to 45 hours at regular pay to boost output in the present emergency.
Only $6,890 And You Can Dance For 1,000 Hours In 'Lifetime Course'
Hollywood (U.P.)—Now you can sign up for a "lifetime course" of dancing lessons—and rug cutters hereabouts are even mortgaging the family home to dig up the dough.
Arthur Murray's the gent who thought up this new gimmick. It costs plenty, too. A neat $8,890 will guarantee you 1,000 hours of dancing lessons, plus a lesson every other week until they plow you under.
Joseph Sire, a 27-year-old manager of one of the local studios, says it's not as fantastic as it sounds.
"We have people in their 60's signing up for lifetime courses," he added. "And if they should die before they use up all their lessons, they can will them to their heirs"
Sire says he has six "lifers" who mortgaged their homes to keep up on the Samba and Mamba.
"And people mortgage their cars all the time," he explained. "I've had two or three cash in their life insurance policies—and a lot of couples cash bonds."
Sire says one of his most enthusiastic pupils is a 67-year-old mid-westerner. She's already on her second life term.
"One man, a retired policeman, even went out and got a desk job so he could afford the lifetime course."
"She was very heavy when she started," he said. "Now she's got her shape back, dresses beautifully, and she's having more fun than she ever had back in the corn belt."
Sire says he's getting used to elderly ladies toting in their cash in old shoe boxes.
"One woman who must have been 50. brought hers in $5 and $10 bills," he said. "I felt like a heel, taking all her savings."
"But you should see her today. She's really living. Tells everybody she's paid for all the happiness she's going to want for the rest of her life."
Conference On Soil Attended By 125
More than 125 engineers and advanced students are attending the second annual Foundations and Soil Mechanics conference given Thursday by the civil engineering department at the University.
Research papers were presented at morning and afternoon sessions.
The reports were "Shearing Properties of Soils," Dr. Gerald Pickett, Kansas State college; "Field Investigation and Laboratory Testing for the Stability Analysis of Earth Slopes and Embankments," W. G. Holtz, Denver, Colo.; "The Resistance of Piling to Lateral Loads," A. E. Cummings, New York; "Que Street Pile Load Tests," Henry G. Schlitt, Lincoln, Nebr.
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Professor's Book Taken As Text
More than 30 universities and colleges in America have selected Prof. Seba Eldridge's book, "Fundamentals of Sociology: A Situational Analysis" as a text. This announcement is from the publisher, Thes. Y. Crowell company.
Dr. Eldridge has been a member of the department of sociology and anthropology at the University since 1921.
Published in 1950, the 720-page book is a collaboration of five other sociologists working with Dr. Eldridge. The current issue of the American Sociological Review appraises the new volume as "well planned and executed."
Dr. Eldridge is the author of a number of other books. Among them are "New Social Horizons." "Public Intelligence." "Development of Collective Enterprise" (with associates). "An Introduction to Sociology" (with others). "The Organization of Life" and "Major Problems of Democracy" (with Prof. Carroll D. Clark.)
He has also contributed to professional journals. His latest article, "Dynamics of an Emergent Economy," appeared in "Labor and the Nation" magazine.
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