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...splitting of the atom. For more than two decades the neutrino was known only in theory. It has no electric charge or mass of its own. It travels at the speed of light, can penetrate matter equal to 100 million miles of lead without being stopped. Billions of neutrinos bombard each square centimeter of the earth's surface every second; but every one of them eluded scientists until 1956. Then physicists detected the first neutrinos in the debris from man-made nuclear reactions. But scientists still could not capture natural neutrinos...
...Archbishop Makarios, responded with counter threats. Makarios said there was no intention of attacking the Turkish Cypriot communities unless "we have to put these areas under full control so as to face the attack from the outside free from any internal distractions." Bellowed Grivas: "If the Turks dare to bombard Cyprus, the heaps of dead will not be Greek!" Grivas last week flew to Athens, and the rumor was that he was asking for a squadron of Greek jet fighters. In his absence, his National Guardsmen cleared a sizable area adjoining Nicosia airport, perhaps to give the jets a home...
...will draw back to leave space for a prestige plaza or a fountain or two. But the impression is still that of a battle of towers, much like Renaissance Bologna's, where each noble family vied to build a taller battlement from which to frown and, on occasion, bombard one another...
...plan to oust Henning, foxy old George arranged dozens of phone calls to top U.S. unionists to tell them of Henning's plight. He also saw to it that the story was leaked to the press. Suddenly, thousands of union men's protest telegrams began to bombard the White House-some even came from ships at sea. Quite a few irritably demanded that Wirtz himself be fired...
...Goulart has reason to rue the day women got the vote. Less than a year after Goulart came to power in 1961, Schoolteacher Doña Amélia Bastos, 59, organized the "Women's Campaign for Democracy" to fight his leftist regime, sent her female followers to bombard politicians with telegrams, letters and personal visits. The climax came in Sāo Paulo last March, when Doña Amélia's women staged an anti-Goulart "March with God for Freedom." It drew 800,000 marchers and was a factor in convincing Brazil...