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...night long crowds lined the Rue Royale and the squares before the Royal Palace and the Church of St. Gudule. Before dawn the roofs were black with watchers and one exhausted patriot had fallen out of a tree and been killed. Soon police and soldiers began to line the route along which Albert's body would pass. About breakfast time hawkers were passing up & down selling rolls and chocolate bars and mirrors on sticks for short people to see over the crowd...
Then came the Spahis. Just before midnight the Algerian cavalrymen in their scarlet and white bournouses charged down with drawn sabres and drove the mob back up the Rue Royale to the Madeleine. Sedate Weber's Café became an emergency hospital. Ancient waiters carried the wounded in from the streets, ripped their aprons and napkins for bandages. Passing doctors operated on the restaurant tables...
Science has long been aware of the little street once called the Rue des Postes. Its present name is the Rue Pierre-Curie. In a shabby wooden building at its end, 36 years ago, Mme Marie Sklodowska Curie and her husband Pierre discovered radium...
Unquestioned was the priority and importance of last week's announcement from the Rue Pierre-Curie. With alpha particles, which for more than a decade have been used to bombard vulnerable substances, the Curie-Joliots attacked boron. The expected neutrons hopped out instantly. But positrons (positive electrons) shot out also, and kept on shooting out after the bombardment stopped, as though the boron had been stimulated into a state of radioactivity. After 15 minutes the positrons were still darting out 30% as fast as at first: after 30 minutes 9% as fast; after 45 minutes 2.7%. Theoretically the radiation...
...From Rue Pierre-Curie in Paris came what important discovery...