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...showed the computer what it was looking for. Carefully reexamined, the stars proved that when an antiproton hits a proton, it sometimes creates five mesons-two positive pions, two negative pions and one pion with no charge at all. For a fleeting instant, one positive and one negative pion cling to the uncharged pion, forming a single unit. That unit lives for only 10²² (one ten-thousand-billion-billionth) seconds. It travels only one ten-billionth of a centimeter before it disintegrates. But in the precise world of physics, this short life is enough to get a particle...
More than ever, the driving force in South Africa is Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd. Confidently he has called new general elections for October, 18 months ahead of schedule. Among the great majority of South African whites who fearfully cling to Verwoerd's white supremacy policies in the face of Africa's "black wave of freedom," the firm expectation is that Verwoerd will win handily. His National Party has an excellent chance of increasing its already absolute majority in the stinkwood-paneled chamber of South Africa's Parliament in Cape Town. The three opposition parties are weak...
...help him design his first and only Byzantine church, Wright got advice from his Greek Orthodox wife and pondered such examples as Istanbul's Santa Sophia, with its 107-ft.-diameter dome set high on pendentives. But he decided that "it is never necessary to cling slavishly to tradition." He used an equilateral Greek cross as a ground plan, with three arms containing seats and the fourth the altar. Over this, rather than the usual square design, he superimposed a circle to form the outer wall; surmounting the wall came a dome 106 ft. in diameter. The stained-glass...
...Honeymoon Machine, and in Bob Hope's Bachelor in Paradise, scheduled for release in November. While at Lamar High School in Houston, Paula sold a poem to the Atlantic Monthly, went on to Virginia's Auntie Bellum Randolph-Macon College, became something of a campus rebel ("They cling to a tradition that doesn't exist"), protested against her election to exclusive Pi Phi by announcing: "I don't want any girl to be my sister or mother." Later, at Northwestern's famed acting school, Paula impressed an M-G-M scout, who was hunting young...
Legitimate news photographers scorn the paparazzi as streetwalkers of Roman journalism. But like streetwalkers, they cling to their place in society. Via Veneto cafes have found they are good for business. With paparazzi lurking just off the premises, cash customers mass to watch for fireworks...