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\ SOCIAL HOUR-SAN FRANCISCO STYLE. Most social hours are land-based, but the Division of Chemical Marketing and Eco nomics took advantage of the meeting locale, held its outing on San Francisco Bay. Among the sights during the harbor tour— San Francisco—Oakland Bay Bridge, Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz {shown here ), and, of course, San Francisco and its hills
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With a crossing of hands, members of this fivesome become acquainted (left to right): Kenneth Wyckoff, Hess & Clark; J. Sullivan, Shell De velopment; R. C. Morris, Shell Development; W . I. Lyness, P&G; and William Ray, Hess and Clark
TIGHT TURN. At the Chemi cal Education Division Symposium on the New Elements, Glenn Seaborg shows how part of the equip ment for University of California's bevatron was moved to Berkeley. Earlier, Β. Β. Cunningham pro vided the high point of the sym posium when he revealed that the university has isolated a measur able amount of berkelium
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A ' L O O K FOR ME AT . . ." These are familiar words at ACS meetings. But w h e n you apply them to the traditional mixer, you have your work cut out to find the people involved. Monday night's affair at the SheratonPalace was no exception, as this crowded room shows
-^POCKET-SIZED ANALYZER. Ralph H . Muller, Los Alamos, shows H, V . Malmstadt of University of Illinois his pocket-sized "x-ray tube" consisting of a beta emitter (Sr 9 0 ) and a suitable target. When bombarded b y the beta rays, the target gives off x-rays which can serve t o identify any element heavier than bromine
^"HERE WE HAVE . . . " Schedule for the ladies included a full round of events in and around San Francisco. Here they stop in the Buddhist Shrine APRIL
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