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...that time the dictatorial bug had bitten King Carol. The Iron Guard leadership was dangerous and must at least be imprisoned. The official version of the killing was that the 14 were shot down while trying to escape from their guards as they were being transferred to another prison. But none but the most unsophisticated doubted that the Government of the Dictator-King had ordered the killing. A few hours later the Government ordered the ruthless suppression of all terrorism...
...most important question for physics to answer is: What is matter made of? A glass of water or a chinch bug or a copper coin is composed of molecules. The molecules are built of atoms. Twenty years ago the ancient Greek notion persisted that atoms were indivisible. Then Ernest Rutherford of England split nitrogen atoms with atomic bullets from radium. Seven years ago physicists were willing to analyze all the matter in the universe in terms of two parts of the atom: protons and electrons...
...King Ranch's stripped hunting Fords, has spent his free time with his family, playing golf (in the low 70s), and avoiding newspapermen. He is a conscientious worker for himself and other farmers, who listens patiently to Congressional oratory, does his bit against oleomargarine and other bug bears of the range, never misses a meeting of his sole committee, Agriculture. Finally, he is a good John Nance Garner Democrat...
...Sheridan Downey had been bitten hard by the bug of social uplift and his activities had been noticed by politicians. These men, plus Sheridan Downey's middle-aged social inspiration, plus the Moon, have made him a significant character in the transitional political year...
Planned for use within a twelvemonth, with finishing touches to go on for a year more, the eventual Washington National Airport will have a seaplane terminal at its south end, can be extended half its size again by filling in to the northeast. Peskiest bug in the project is the new, and roundly protested, research laboratory of the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads, sticking up like a sore thumb on Gravelly Point no feet above the Potomac and just to the west of the proposed field. Last week CAA and army engineers were planning to build the necessary air field...