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Science & Socialism. For nearly an hour, in a mixture of rolling Old Testament exhortation and terse New Frontierese, the greying, round-faced Yorkshireman described a Britain restored to greatness "not by military strength alone" but by mobilizing "all the resources of democratic planning, all the latent and underdeveloped energies and skills of our people." The key, said Wilson, is science. He explained: "The strength, solvency and influence of Britain-which some still think depend on nostalgic illusions or upon nuclear posturings-are going to depend for the remainder of this century on the speed with which we come to terms...
Modest Messiah. Despite such latent opposition, Ben Bella is counting on the turbaned peasant masses, along with the popular national army of enigmatic No. 2 man, Colonel Houari Boumedienne, to keep him in power. Ben Bella's immediate problem is reviving the economy, and last week, on the eve of the presidential vote, he announced a timely boost from the Soviet Union-a $100 million loan to Algeria. Although disbursement details had yet to be worked out on paper, Russia thus becomes Ben Bella's second most important helper after France, which has promised up to $700 million...
...Hurricane Esther's heat chimney. Into the chimney they dropped eight finned, 130 lb. bombs which spewed a cloud of minute silver iodide particles as they fell. The crystals acted like small ice "seeds," and supercooled droplets of water instantly froze around them. Instant icing released the latent heat of fusion, equivalent to the energy of eight 20-kiloton atomic bombs. In one hour, radar showed that a 160° segment of the chimney had been knocked out. Maximum wind speeds dropped by as much as 14% in the seeded sector. But two hours after seeding stopped, Esther...
...Mitchum, 22, has progressed through bit parts to star billing in Carl Foreman's The Victors. He is a heavy-lidded, torpid replica of Actor Robert Mitchum, but with little of his father's suggestion of latent energy and smoldering violence...
...Byron was 27, and his bride, the former Annabella Milbanke, had just turned 23; their marriage lasted not quite a year. Its failure has variously been attributed to Byron's incestuous relationship with his half sister Augusta Leigh, to his heavy drinking, his mental instability, his not-so-latent homosexuality, and even his sagging finances. Byron himself blamed it on his mother-in-law, who later changed her name from Milbanke to Noel. When Lady Noel recovered from a severe illness, Byron scribbled a note to his sister: "I will reserve my tears for the demise of Lady Noel...