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...wounded. He has, in the naked display of his rage at Eugene McCarthy for having survived on the lonely road he dared not walk himself, done with a single great gesture something very few public men have ever been able to do: in one day he managed to confirm the worst things his enemies have ever said about...
Looking through our files for background material to last week's news, we were pleased to confirm an impression that TIME has for years been telling what's going on in the money world, warning about impending dangers in the balance of payments deficit, discussing proposed solutions, pointing up the need for a new form of international monetary reserves. While such subjects are often considered too complicated to have wide reader appeal, we have felt that TIME'S readers want and need to know about them. So we have dealt with them in major stories through...
Faculty members are acting as liasons between students and the administration. President Nabrit, a Negro, has not been seen on campus for the past three days and is in Puerto Rico, although no one here could confirm that...
...technique has been used to check out Einstein: interplanetary radar. Preliminary radar tests also have failed to find a flaw in general relativity, a scientist from Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory announced last week, and radar soon should provide results accurate enough to help confirm the theory-or to seriously undermine...
Test results, which Shapiro regards as only preliminary, could be inaccurate by as much as 20%, and still leave some room for doubt about relativity. But refinements in the radar technique could soon reduce the uncertainty to less than 1%, he says, and further confirm or definitely overthrow Einstein's general relativity...