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...about antimatter in bulk. The earth contains no antimatter because matter and antimatter destroy each other as soon as they meet. Antiparticles are now being created in the laboratory, but the trick of actually building antiatoms is likely to take a long time (TIME, April 21). Meanwhile, those who cherish the laws of symmetry are considering the possibility of distant anti-galaxies in space. Such weird other worlds, balancing galaxies of ordinary matter in the universe, may well exist...
...border of Vichy France into German-occupied Paris. Within a few months their espionage network, named "Inter-Allied," included some 200 agents who kept up steady radio and courier communication with London, fed British intelligence information about German troop concentrations, barracks, antiaircraft defenses, etc. British agents came to cherish the familiar coded words on the wireless: "To Room 55a, War Office, London: The Cat reports...
...Liberals, who governed Canada for 22 years until last June, prepared to blame the Tories for Canada's business slowdown and rising unemployment and to accuse them of mishandling relations with the U.S. Neither major party is remotely anti-U.S., but the Tories traditionally cherish stonger ties to Britain; soon after taking office, Diefenbaker called on. Canadians to transfer 15% of their U.S. purchases to British suppliers...
This cynical couplet from Shakespeare's As You Like It would shock the traditionalists of Japan, who cherish in song and story the tales of true lovers pledged in death. Last year 3,000 Japanese girls between the ages of 15 and 24 killed themselves, and 1,000 of these died in suicide pacts with their lovers. Last week Japan was sentimentally creating a new legend about a new pair of star-crossed lovers...
...Little Rock, Ark., bludgeoning innocent bystanders, with bayonets in the backs of schoolgirls, and the warm, red blood of patriotic American citizens staining the cold, naked, unsheathed knives. In the name of God, whom we all revere, in the name of liberty we hold so dear, which we all cherish, what is happening in America...