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Meager are the rewards of virtue. Consider the plight of the UN, which, after years of the most generous admission policy, now finds itself out of seats: when Uganda is admitted this week, representatives of 110 nations will sit in a chamber originally designed...
...this second experiment the beam will be used to create, through bombardment of a special target, a stream of high energy photons. The photons, in turn, will be directed into a hydrogen bubble chamber. Interaction of the photons with the hydrogen nuclei will produce strange particles. These particles will leave a track of bubbles in the hydrogen, and in this way can be observed and studied...
Like the electron-proton scattering experiment, the bubble chamber program will require over a million dollars worth of equipment, and several years to complete...
Finally ratified by the Chamber of Deputies. the bill nationalizing Italy's electric power industry was about as urgent, economically speaking, as introducing a new type of pasta. Nearly 30% of Italian electric power was government-owned anyway; buying up the rest of the industry at prices profitable to the private owners was scarcely a creative economic move. Eventually it may bring cheaper electricity to the underdeveloped south, but only at the cost of higher rates elsewhere in the country...
...accounts for about 80% of all private foreign investment in Colombia, U.S. Ambassador Fulton Freeman decided to put the record straight. Over the next months, Freeman made a confidential survey of 90 big U.S. corporations doing business in the country. Recently, speaking before members of the Colombian-American Chamber of Commerce in Bogota, he presented the survey's findings...