Word: deviationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ Provincetown, Mass., which thought it had seen its great days when Eugene O'Neill's players held forth at the Provincetown Playhouse and the Beachcombers' Club was packed with hairy-chested writers, has staged a postwar cultural comeback, is now an oasis of abstract painters, most...
The Vincennes Zoo, Paris, let it be known last week that Ebola, a female infant okapi-a rare, sawed-off semigi-raffe from the Belgian Congo rain forest -had lived three weeks so far without untoward incident. This is big zoo news; other okapis have been born in captivity, but...
The airplane is usually drifting sideways under the influence of side winds, but the 67 determines the drift and allows for it. It notes the heading from the airplane's compass. Then a computer figures automatically the latitude and longitude, the ground traveled and the deviation, if any, from...
The facts seemed to be a good deal simpler and more sinister than what Koestler imagined. The 1949 show trial of Hungary's Communist Foreign Minister Laszlo Rajk read as if it had been taken from Koestler's pages. Apparently for reasons of party unity, Rajk, like Koestler...
After the split, the cosmon decayed into the known universe. "The anti-cosmon may or may not have decayed by now, since spontaneous decay is a process governed by a statistical law," says Goldhaber. "If it did decay (forming an 'anti-cosmos'), any anti-nucleons that are shot...