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Pressed to comment on Bhabha's fore cast, AEC Chairman Lewis Strauss disclosed what most scientists already knew: the U.S. (like Russia and Britain) has long been experimenting with fusion power on "a moderate scale." But, he added, H-power is a long-range project, and, barring an early, unforeseen "breakthrough," uranium will be the standard reactor fuel for some time to come...
First victims of the new press policy were Colombia's Liberal opposition papers, which were ordered a fortnight ago to submit all copy to army censors be fore publication. When one paper went to press with blank spaces marked "censored" where stories had been killed, troops confiscated 15,000 copies. A few days later, censorship was extended to pro-government newspapers as well. Then, last week, the government shut down en tirely the country's leading Liberal paper, El Tiempo* Reason: El Tiempo's Editor Roberto Garcia-Pena had rejected an army order to print...
...just turning cool in the Rond-Point Mers Sultan when a three-wheeled delivery motorcart pulled up be fore the Café Gonin, crowded with Europeans sipping apéritifs while they waited for the street dancing to begin. Two Moroccan teen-age youths climbed off the motorcycle and walked away. Minutes later, somebody noticed a curl of smoke coming from the motorcycle. Two European youths lifted up the canvas cover and peered in. There was a deafening explosion. Café Gonin's terrace became a mass of writhing, bloody bodies. Six Europeans were dead, 35 wounded...
...Guards parade ("The young princess had some difficulty in persuading her mount to settle down. But it was done . . coolly and decisively"). She also painted a vivid word picture of the scene at this year's Royal Ascot races ("an air of enthusiasm about it never seen be fore"). There were only a couple of things wrong with the story: neither event ever took place. Because of the British railroad strike, both were canceled, but not in time to catch Crawfie's column, which goes to press six weeks be fore it comes...
...made of highly purified silicon ($280 per lb.), which must be "grown" by a tricky process into a single crystal about the size of a fat banana. The wafers are cross sections one-fiftieth of an inch thick, and they must go through a subtle chemical treatment be fore they will work as batteries...