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Since the United States and Great Britain are so vitally concerned with security, it seems odd that they might support a plan throwing Israel into the Soviet orbit. The wisest move by far would be to encourage direct negotiation between Arabs and the Jewish government. When the peace is settled in favor of Israel, as it certainly will be, the U. S. and Britain should lend all possible aid to the new state in the hope of building a strong, progressive nation. The one great hope for this course of action is in the report that President Truman has notified...
Only rockets can get into this laboratory and, so far, they cannot stay there long. But Dr. Van Allen thinks that there are other possibilities. "Serious consideration," he says, "is being given to the development of a satellite missile which will continuously orbit around the earth, at a distance of, say, 1,000 kilometers (620 miles)." Circling endlessly, far above the drag of the atmosphere, its instruments could radio data for generations of scientists to study. Or perhaps some hardy scientist might make a few turns in the belly of this synthetic moon, and then return to earth full...
...Cominform had stated with blunt finality: "There is no place for the [Roman] Catholic church in the Balkans." Hungary was not strictly Balkan, but it was in the Cominform orbit. Last week Hungary's Communist government won a victory over Hungary's Catholicism. In the midst of the fracas, trading punch for punch, was Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, a tough prelate in a tough spot...
...treaty tucked Finland even more snugly into the Soviet orbit, but for the present, non-Communist Finland had managed to preserve control over its internal affairs (though a Communist Minister of the Interior ran the police). Pooh-poohing "rumors about internal unrest, attempts at a coup and disturbance at the next political elections," President Paasikivi reassured his people: "Such objectives would have no chance of success here." Finland, it seemed, was different...
...runaway asteroid was a fine prize for astronomers, who rarely get a leisurely chance to study such objects passing so close to the earth. Three other asteroids (the latest ten years ago) are known to have wandered inside the earth's orbit, but they were visible only briefly and have since been lost in space. Wirtanen's asteroid will probably stay around long enough for its orbit to be calculated accurately. Astronomers can keep track of it and perhaps find where it goes when it turns away from...