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Toward dawn a thundering explosion rocked the bullet-riddled jail front. A dynamite charge had ripped away the porch, and behind the billowing cloud of smoke and rubble the sporadic firing ceased. From within a voice called: "Stop it. You're killing us. Let us give...
...Among freemen there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet, and. . . they who take such appeal are sure to lose their case and pay the cost...
...Rupert District of South Georgia's Taylor County, Macie Snipes was the only Negro to vote. The day after election four white men called him out from supper. Macie Snipes staggered back into the house with blood gushing from the bullet wounds in his belly. A coroner's jury solemnly reported that he had been killed by one of his visitors in self defense...
Today the citizenry thronged the Plaza Murillo, not to gape at the bullet-shattered facade of the Presidential Palace-nor even to stare at the Junta members working inside the smashed windows of the second floor-but to attend High Mass at the Cathedral next door. La Paz is bewildered and aghast at the violence of the last weekend. There has been an immense religious revival. At last Friday's Mass for the dead of both sides, the Plaza was absolutely packed. Even the men knelt to the Host, a rare phenomenon in Spanish America...
Cyclotron. For high-powered work, the cyclotron has had a basic flaw: at very high speeds it runs head on into relativity. In a cyclotron, nuclear bullets (such as deuterons-the nucleus of the heavy hydrogen atom) are whirled around in a drum divided across the middle, like a halved round cheese. Each time a bullet crosses the gap between the drum halves, it gets an electrical kick, increasing its speed. Because of the bullet's great speed (it circles the drum in millionths of a second), accurate timing of the kick is all-important. But as the bullet...