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...country, the ex-French colony called the "other Congo" to distinguish it from its anarchic ex-Belgian neighbor,* has long seemed quiet and peaceful. But when it came, Youlou's exit had all the revolutionary trimmings, including a storming of the local bastille and a mob outside the palace howling for bread...
...detect-provided the proper instruments are orbiting in space-are the soft X rays; they are by far the largest product of the explosion. The Vela-Hotel instrument package is expected to detect soft X rays from a one megaton explosion 200 million miles away from the earth and distinguish them from X rays from solar flares and other natural sources. Some instruments are also sensitive to gamma rays and neutrons...
...Social Prediction Table is a formula which, through examination of environmental factors such as maternal supervision and family cohesiveness, can be used to distinguish between potential delinquents and non-delinquents...
Honesty and balance distinguish The Four Days of Naples from dozens of mediocre predecessors with similar plots. The film does not pretend that a latter-day Spartacus rallied the Italians around an American flag, or that a massed charge of Neapolitan housewives armed with brooms broke the nerve of veteran troops. The resistance forces use modern weapons, look scared, and get shot in large numbers. They will rise up spontaneously and fight without organization. The struggle is so makeshift that indignant residents often ask the street-fighters to take their battles elsewhere. Only the occasional reappearance of the same characters...
...Blue Note, he sits slumped over the piano, ear cocked down to the keys, and he plays like a man trying to recall how he used to sound. Now and then, with a cry of "Bebop!" he spins into a rush of the crashing, dissonant chords that distinguish his style, but some nights he scarcely plays at all. Powell's days as a creative musician seem over now, but he is still a masterful pianist. Duke Ellington, who recorded an hour of his playing for Reprise Records early this year, says Powell is playing as well...