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...American Catholic bishops are keeping aloof from politics; they have never forced their subjects either to vote for a Catholic candidate or forbidden them to vote for a non-Catholic candidate...
...first attempt to prove this hypothesis was a failure. Glaser brought bottles of beer, soda water and ginger ale into his laboratory (beer was forbidden on campus, he now recalls) and heated them. He placed a radioactive source near a bottle; then he uncapped the bottle. The radiation had no observable effect on the bubbles that burst out of the bottle, but Glaser was not discouraged. Working with almost no funds or encouragement, he built his first successful bubble chamber in 1953. It was half an inch in diameter and was filled with ether. "Ether is cheap," explains Glaser...
Last week the U.S. asked West Germany (which is forbidden by treaty to allow manufacture of atomic bombs) to classify the newest design as secret. But scientists say that the secret is already out. The Brazilian atomic energy commission already owns three early models of the West German machine, and an Amsterdam professor is designing others "for commercial purposes." When the U.N. Political Committee takes up the subject of disarmament this week, there should be a new urgency about the Big Four at last reaching agreement on controlling the atom...
...petition urging French soldiers to desert rather than take up arms against the Algerian rebels. Le Grand Charles decreed punishment rare in any country calling itself a democracy. Government employees who signed or support the petition, such as teachers, face suspension at one-third pay; actors and directors were forbidden employment in French radio and television or in state-run or state-subsidized theaters and films. Minister of Culture Andre Malraux (whose daughter and divorced wife were among the signers) was ordered to draft a bill denying state financial aid to any artist who signed the manifesto...
Chief point of their case was that there is no freedom for African students in Moscow. They found themselves forced to submit to political indoctrination, forbidden to band together in their own African student associations "like Africans have at universities everywhere." They were watched wherever they went by young Russian Komsomols, who even shared their dormitory quarters. Their big trouble started when they tried to complain of Russian racism. Their Communist sponsors were incensed when they reported that a young Somali student was beaten unconscious last May when he asked a Russian girl to dance with him. Soviet authorities even...