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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Marriage Revealed. Arthur Koestler, 45, expatriate Hungarian author, widely read interpreter of the Communist mind (Darkness at Noon, The God That Failed); and his secretary, 34, who two years ago legally changed her name from Mamaine Paget to Mamaine Paget Koestler; she for the first time, he for the second; in Paris...
...particles makes a track like a "V," with two branches spreading from a single point in space. Therefore, said Anderson, the particle is neutral (while still whole it leaves no track in the cloud chamber), and it disintegrates into two charged particles that do leave tracks. The second new particle has a charge, and therefore leaves a track. But the track has an angle in it, indicating that the original particle turns (at the angle) into two particles, one with a charge and one neutral...
Both of the new particles, Anderson calculated, "live" for only about three ten-billionths of a second before they disintegrate. So far, not much more is known about either of the particles. Said Dr. Anderson: "This is as important a thing as you can hope to find in physics. Apparently the Creator does not favor a world of too great simplicity...
American G.I.s were not the only ones to liberate Italy; the British were there too. In his second novel, Briton Alexander Baron (From the City, from the Plough) retells in fresh detail one of World War II fiction's most popular stories: what happens when invading Allied soldiers wash off the grime of battle and go out to meet the enemy's women...
...only way Stuffy Mclnnis could recognize his team as the same one that had played earlier this season was by the uniforms. Aside from a momentary lapse in the second inning, when the Crimson committed two errors, it was a perfect afternoon of baseball. The Crimson hit safely in every inning except the last...