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...India, the father of yellow journalism is Russy K. Karanjia, 39, founder of Bombay's wildly sensational English-language weekly Blitz. Publisher Karanjia made enough from Blitz to start the weekly Atom, which he recently sold to raise capital for a daily newspaper he is planning. He has a simple explanation for his quick success. "A newspaper," says he, "should print what its readers want to read. Some newspaper editors claim they have certain principles. I call them inhibitions. I do not have any." Untrammeled by principles, Publisher Karanjia has boosted Blitz's circulation to 50,000, made...
...Louis Leprince Ringuet of France: "I have even had occasion to see the expression 'Iron Curtain of the West' applied quite widely to the U.S." Says Professor M. L. Oliphant of Australia, who was refused a visa although he was a key man in the U.S. atom bomb project: "At times I feel very bitter about the situation, since I believe that, in the fields of radar and atomic energy, I have been of some help...
...world's most powerful atom-smasher, as planned at present, will not be in the U.S., but in Switzerland. The machine may be powerful enough (30 billion electron volts) to create new matter-even a new kind of matter-out of energy...
...even create negative protons, which would be really sensational. Ordinary protons are positively charged. Combined with one or more negative electrons, they form the familiar atoms of ordinary matter. But scientists have already created positive electrons (positrons). This suggests that it may be possible to create negative protons (not yet named nega-tons). Combined with positrons, these should form "reversed matter." An atom of "anti-hydrogen," for instance, would have a negative proton as its nucleus, with a positron instead of an electron revolving around...
...Outlawing the atom bomb and all weapons of mass destruction...