The 200‐BeV machine

The Atomic Energy Commission announced last month that it has received 110 proposals from 45 states recommending some 200 different sites for the location of the projected 200‐BeV proton accelerator. Of the Union's fifty states, only Alaska, Delaware, Hawaii, New Hampshire, and Vermont were not listed among those eager to claim the $280‐million machine and the proposed national high‐energy physics laboratory to be built around it.