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...preconceptions are too strong, if the reader cannot make the transfer from the unknown to supernaturalism, from alien cultures to elves and orcs, he finds the entire saga meaningless. The cult which has already surrounded the book testifies, however, to the number of readers who find the system not only credible, but often more realistic than their own perceptions...
...wheel-like star tells what happens when one of the alien particles is annihilated. The antiproton (P¯ ) enters from the left. It is moving fast at first, but gradually slows down and merges with the nucleus of some unfortunate atom. There it combines with a proton or neutron, and both particles vanish, turning into 1,876 million electron volts of energy. The resulting explosion-extremely violent on the atomic scale-drives off fast-moving fragments that trace the lines of the star...
...settlement that will enable him to expand some more. Since 1953, the Government had seized 19 of Niarchos' U.S.-built ships, charged in a suit that he had bought them through front corporations specially set up in the U.S. (TIME, Feb. 22, 1954), though barred as an alien from buying U.S. war-surplus vessels for American flag operation. Under the final settlement reached last week, Niarchos will 1) pay the U.S. $4,500,000 (making a total of $12,579,500) and 2) get back the last five ships (valued at $10 million on the foreign market...
Short Ships, Long Terms. After the war Niarchos staked his insurance money on the belief that ships would be short at a time when most shippers predicted a surplus. As a "friendly" alien, he was able to buy surplus U.S. Liberties and Victories (average 1945 price: $540,000); he traded them off at a profit and bought surplus T-2 tankers, including the 13 he bought illegally. He persuaded U.S. oil companies who owned most of their own tankers and leased the rest on short-term charter that he could save them money by operating the ships himself on long...
...Alderson, W. Va. Although Rose was until her conviction a U.S. citizen (she was born of Japanese parents in Los Angeles on the Fourth of July, 1916), the Federals immediately moved to deport her. This raised a fine legal point: Is Rose now an undesirable resident alien, perhaps to be deported as a U.S.-born woman without a country? If she beats a booting, a job awaits her at Ronceverte, West Virginia's radio station WRON, as a late-hour disk jockey...