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Spain. The Assembly resolution, approved 34-to-6, recommends that U.N. Ambassadors and Ministers should be withdrawn from Madrid, and bars Spain from all U.N. organizations, but otherwise leaves trade and diplomatic relations as before. In effect, this was a postponement of tne Spanish issue for future action...
...states have brought suit against the publishers of "Memoirs of Hecate Country" in an effort to ban its sale within their borders. In California the book was withdrawn from sale after the state's legal action, while in New York the case is presently being appealed before the Supreme Court. It was never put on sale in Boston and surrounding environs because of existing "blue laws" and the vigilance of the Watch and Warders...
...Union libraries will be closed, but books may be withdrawn on December 21. Remaining books will be transferred to Boylston, which will be open every Monday through Friday from nine until five o'clock...
...rods was automatic, controlled by a motor which could shoot it back into the pile when instruments warned that neutrons were getting too thick. Another (called "Zip") was attached to a heavy weight by a rope running over a pulley. When in the "withdrawn" position, it was tethered by another rope; a man with an ax stood ready to cut it free, send it zipping into the pile if anything went wrong. The last rod, marked in feet and inches, was to be worked by hand...
Neutrons Away. At 2 o'clock the physicists gathered again in the squash court. One by one, on Fermi's orders, the control rods were withdrawn, the counters clicked faster. The pile was alive with neutrons now; the giant was straining his bonds. But it was not quite a chain reaction. The neutron curve moved up, leveled...