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Guilty Particles. Hardly had the neutrino become established as a real particle when physicists noticed that pi mesons (middleweight particles, also called pi-ons, that are created by powerful atom smashers) disintegrate into slightly lighter mu mesons (muons) while an unseen particle carries away part of their energy. At first the physicists assumed that ordinary neutrinos were the guilty particles. Then they began to have their doubts. Maybe another kind of neutrino was stealing the pion's energy. But it had been hard enough to trap regular neutrinos; how were scientists to locate and study an even more evasive...
Turning to Neighbors. To help revive the looted economy, the U.S. rushed $35.2 million in aid. For economic advisers the Council sensibly turned to the neighboring U.S. island Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, which speaks the same language and has plenty of economic experience. Governor Luis Muñoz Marin sent his experts to draw plans for a Dominican Industrial Development Corp., capitalized with $41 million in seized Trujillo assets. Puerto Rican specialists drafted a Dominican income tax law hiking levies on the rich, designed an agrarian reform law under which the Council is already distributing land, planned the country...
...Muñoz Marin's view, there is only one group in Latin America that can make the Alliance work. "That group," he said, "is what I call the Democratic Left." Left of what? "In Latin America, left usually means left of reaction, left of feudalism, left of exploitation. I would call the Democratic Left in Latin America the group which seeks social advances and higher living standards for all the people in a framework of freedom and consent...
...Fiercer Attack. One of the most conspicuous members of Muñoz' Democratic Left-and a man on whom the U.S. counts heavily-is Venezuela's President Rómulo Betancourt. A onetime radical revolutionary who has moderated his views with time, Betancourt was elected three years ago to govern a country rich in oil but economically ravaged by dictatorship. He has struggled to restore financial stability and provide jobs for his people, who were largely illiterate (illiteracy has dropped from 57% to 27% in three years) and mostly poor. No leader is under fiercer attack...
...they came to see and hear was 84-year-old Cellist Pablo Casals, one of the world's greatest performing musicians. Since his self-banishment from his native Spain in 1939, Casals has refused to fiddle publicly in any country that recognizes the Franco government,* but, as Muňoz Marin put it, he agreed to play at the White House "to render the homage of music to the great leader whom he admires...