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...most dangerous yet, was described last week by Physicists E. P. Ney, J. R. Winckler and P. S. Freier of the University of Minnesota, who specialize on observing cosmic rays by means of high-altitude plastic balloons. Last May 10 they heard from astronomers that an unusually powerful flare had erupted on the sun. As they readied their great balloons, a telephone call came from Alaska; Astrophysicist Harold Leinbach was reporting that his radio telescope at College (near Fairbanks) had detected a sudden blackout of radio noise from space. This indicated, said Leinbach, that a great swarm of particles from...
...bird flew aimlessly. Dr. Walter Orr Roberts, director of the University of Colorado's high-altitude observatory, lamented that the failure "probably has set our kind of scientific research back ten years," because the misfire cost scientists a priceless opportunity to study an unusually powerful and unexpected solar flare on the day of the scheduled launching...
...northeastern oilfield region of Kirkuk last week, street fighting broke out between Kurds and Turks, with the Communists mixing in; about 20 were killed. Kassem remains emotionally antiWestern, but seems belatedly learning to suspect Communists. After the Kirkuk flare-up he warned the Communists that it was the government's job, and no one else's, to determine who are "enemies of the people," and "we will settle accounts with all who attack the liberty of the people...
Tranquillity is the most unlikely outcome of events in the Middle East, when one pistol shot can change so much and passions flare so easily in the hot sun. But things are now quieter-and on the whole, more stable-than in that churning week of July...
There have been no comparable flare-ups since, but the problem remains and has how taken a new turn. Last week, for instance, the newly formed Uganda National Movement had a boycott going of all non-African shops, the purpose being to "drive the Asians into the large towns. After that we shall put pressure on them there too." Long snubbed by the whites, the Asians now find themselves in danger from the blacks, and few can decide to which side...