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Counting Showers. For many years Professor Bruno Rossi of M.I.T. has hunt ed for cosmic rays above this critical limit. The original energy of a cosmic ray can be measured by counting the second-ary particles that it showers down on the earth after colliding with air molecules in the...
Persuading by Doing. Che convinced Castro with competence, diplomacy and patience. When grenades were needed, Che set up a factory to make them. When bread was wanted, Che set up ovens to bake it. When new recruits needed to learn tactics and discipline, Che taught them. When a school was...
As it stands, The Captive and the Free is not one of ary's best novels. But had the author been given the strength to do more work on it, the book might have been his most significant, for Cary knew that an offbeat life can sometimes distill significant...
It was Mao who set the pattern of the Chinese Communist terror in his 1949 tract, On People's Democratic Dictatorship. Said Mao: "The reactionaries must be deprived of the right to voice their opinion." One of Mao's lieutenants, writing in the Peking Current Affairs, wryly but...
Sweden's scholarly King Gustaf VI Adolph, 72, flew to Britain for a week's prowling in museums and art galleries, wound up his stay by picking up an honor ary Doctor of Letters degree at Oxford University for his pioneering spadework as an archaeologist.