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Eugene Lipman, educational representative of the Jewish Agency told of successful activities of the Haganah, the underground resistance movement in Palestine, in bringing European refugees to Palestine despite British attempts to thwart them...
...Under no circumstances," he roared, "shall the Soviet delegation go to San Francisco!" His reason: too far from Moscow. Sputtering protests, he shouted that the U.S. had rigged the race, that the whole thing was a U.S. plot to thwart the London decision of the General Assembly -which had limited the search to the eastern U.S. Comrade Saksin insisted on entering New York's Flushing Meadow, which had not even been listed on the subcommittee's program...
...China as an international pawn to thwart Russian expanision, and wellmeant but inept attempts to solve China's problems with inapplicable U. S. formulas were cited as two main defeate in U. S. Far Eastern policy at the fourth Law School Forum last night...
...film's mystery is not very mysterious. Neither is the romance between mother and a police lieutenant of the homicide squad (Randolph Scott). But the irrepressible kids (Peggy Ann Garner, 14, Connie Marshall, 8, and Dean Stockwell, 10) are often very funny in their efforts to assist or thwart Police Sergeant Jimmy Gleason...
...relativity effect has limited most cyclotrons to considerably less than 100 million electron volts. But last week California's Physicist Edwin M. McMillan reported that he had found a way to thwart relativity. His device: a frequency modulator (the same principle as in FM radio) which automatically adjusts the frequency of a cyclotron's kicks to the speed of its bullets. It will beef up California's new 184-inch cyclotron (to be completed by autumn) to 200-400 million electron volts...