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...goddess Durga will celebrate her festival with clay images and ceremonial parades. Durga is the good side of the same ambivalent goddess of which Kali is the evil face.* In this same week Moslems will celebrate Id-el-Atha, their version of the story of Abraham and Isaac. Usually they sacrifice cows, but this week many, lest the Hindus be offended, plan again to sacrifice sheep.† Even so, the two coincident festivals might touch off killing in Bengal, which, along with Bihar and the United Provinces, is considered the next great danger spot...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. 12 noon, CBS). Discussion of Sir Isaac Newton's epochal Principia Mathematica...
...theory of electron behavior has been the bible of wave (quantum) mechanics.* Last week Columbia University announced that two of its young scientists, Professor Willis Lamb, 34, and Robert Retherford, 35, had knocked a prop from under the Dirac theory. Their experiment, said Columbia's Nobel Physicist Isidor Isaac Rabi, revealed new facts which will be of "inestimable value in future research...
...Signed) "Head Chief Duck Chief, L. Many Bears, Paul Little Walker, Ben Calf Robe [Blackfoot tribe]; Chief Enos Hunter, Chief David Bearspaw, Jacob Twoyoungmen, Councilors Isaac Two-youngmen, John Powderface, Tom Kaquitts [Stoney tribe]; Councilors Judas Hunter, Jonas Rider; David Crowchild, Eddie One Spot, George Runner [Sarcee tribe...
When the West produces musical talent (e.g., Fiddlers Yehudi Menuhin and Isaac Stern), it has to go East to be polished. Last week, the West opened a musical finishing school of its own, at luxuriant, seaside Santa Barbara. For $30 a week board and up to $250 for eight weeks' tuition, 50 "advanced and specially gifted musicians" will be provided with extracurricula not offered by the East's famed but city-bound Juilliard, Eastman and Curtis: a private beach and mountain scenery, as well as a list of celebrated teachers, advisers and sponsors as long as an unwound...