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Swindletron. Drs. Luis W. Alvarez and John R. Woodyard of the University of California are building a new-type atom-smasher that they call a "swindletron" because it seems to get something for nothing. At one end of a 6-ft. vacuum tube, protons (hydrogen atoms stripped of their single electrons) are shot at comparatively low speed (30,000 volts) through a thin, uncharged disk of aluminum foil. While passing through it, many of them pick up two electrons, becoming negatively charged hydrogen atoms. Next, they are attracted to a second disk of foil that is charged positively...
Bishop Rafael Alvarez Lara agreed to give the idea a trial in his See of Guadix, and Brothers Hilarion and Bernardo went to work. In the cemetery's dilapidated tool shed, they arranged two small cells and a tiny kitchen. All day long, they labor in the graveyard, clearing paths, repairing crumbling headstones, replacing rusty iron crosses and digging graves, an average of one a day. Each day they rise at 2 a.m. to walk in meditation through the cemetery to the tiny chapel, where they pray until...
...second, better-organized attack followed the next afternoon. Tipped off, Waynick asked and got promises of strong police protection. A police detail appeared briefly, then left when all appeared quiet. Thereupon Father Florencio Alvarez, a local priest, led his most ardent parishioners down the steep cobblestone street from a hilltop slum behind the chapel. The marchers carried banners proclaiming "Colombia is Catholic" and "We Will Not Be Robbed of Our Religion." Some of them also heaved stones. Halting directly before the church door, Father Alvarez thanked his followers for their "protestation of faith" and denounced "Protestant millionaires from...
...make the plant a state publishing house, but ailing Evita Peron held out for a C.G.T.-owned paper and won). Its editor is Martiniano Passo, who edited Evita's own daily, Democrada. He had lured in only one top newsman from the old La Prensa, Luis Maria Alvarez, once an intimate of former Publisher Alberto Gainza Paz, now in voluntary exile...
...Alvarez del Vayo usually ran parallel to the Soviet line. Nation staffers were shocked when Editor Kirchwey, who had refused to let Critic Greenberg have his say in the Nation, filed libel suits against him and the anti-Communist New Leader, which printed his story...