Tyger hunting in the Everglades

The Conference on Symmetry Principles at High Energy, held at Coral Gables, Florida, on January 30 and 31, and sponsored by the University of Miami, provided a series of welcome contrasts to those who had attended the American Physical Society Meeting in New York the previous week: the pace, the climate, the beauty of the surroundings, the intimacy and, perhaps, more than these, the style and audacity of the scientific contributions—one has only to reflect a moment on the fevered character of the New York Meeting, then perform a mental inversion, to catch the spirit of the Coral Gables Conference.

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