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...question has been debated ever since Newton. But physicists are still in the dark about whether light is 1) a wave, 2) a particle or 3) a combination of both. Sometimes it behaves like one, sometimes like the other. Last fortnight a physicist advanced a brand-new theory: that light is some kind of electrodynamic force which travels not in waves or straight lines but like a corkscrew...
That there was no complete break with the Union was largely due to Foreign Minister Orlando Peluffo's moderate attitude. But early this week Peluffo resigned. Argentina was suffering from her own brand of political indigestion...
Said N. Baltisky: the U.S.S.R. wants worldwide freedom of the press too, but does not "want to impose our Soviet form of freedom of the press upon the other countries of the world." Therefore Cooper should not try to impose his brand either. Besides, "it is one thing to recognize by law the right of citizens to publish newspapers and magazines that serve their interests, and quite a different thing to guarantee the people the use of their right. ... In the Soviet Union only, where all power is in the hands of the toilers, [does] the press serve the interests...
Rough, Tough. Chicago has seen Ruppel's brand of slambang journalism before. Between 1935 and 1938 he doubled the circulation of the tabloid Times by such arresting noises. (In fact, his latest outburst was a tried-&-true Ruppel trick: a Times headline once blazoned: CHICAGO HAS A DIRTY NECK.) In his Times days, Ruppel got a hospital-bed picture by disguising photographers as clergymen, used a siren-screaming ambulance to rush World Series photographs to the engravers...
...reconsidered. WPBoss Krug had dumped on his desk plans to build one billion dollars' worth of new war plants. These would be for high-octane gas (the octane shortage had been "solved" months ago), for tires (the rubber problem had been "solved"), for jet motors and scores of brand-new weapons...