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...goes. Until the coup, Czechoslovakia was the only country within the Soviet orbit where TIME & LIFE could be distributed freely. It was the only country freely visited by people from other Russian-dominated countries and, therefore, almost the last portal through which the publications of the Western democracies could find their way to the countries behind the Iron Curtain. As this letter goes to press, TLI has written Czechoslovakia off as another example of the fact, which TLI has learned the hard way, that the war of ideas is a real...
Most of the 1,600-odd known asteroids (small-fry planets) revolve in orderly orbits between the paths of Mars and Jupiter. But last week an asteroid was off its reservation and rapidly approaching the orbit of the earth. Astronomer C.A. Wirtanen of Lick Observatory, Calif., who spotted it, figured that it was some two miles in diameter (about the size of the Matterhorn broken off at its base) and big enough to give the earth a sizable jolt...
...unworkable policy in Palestine (see above). In Turin, Foreign Minister Georges Bi-dault, as spokesman for the West, proposed the return of Trieste to Italy. That was a sound effort to prevent a Communist victory in the Italian elections next month, to draw a non-Communist Italy into the orbit of Western Union. Still further bids to the Italian voters were in the works. One prospect: a U.S. proposal that Italy be admitted...
Enlightening students in Europe's "Russian orbit" an America's heritage and institutions is the primary purpose of the Lowell House shipment, Robert M. Evans '46, and Alfred M. Goodlee '50, founders of the committee, explained last night...
...idea was not original with Dr. Brown. Others have conjectured that a good-sized planet may once have revolved in the orbit (between Mars and Jupiter) now cluttered with little asteroids. When the planet broke up (for an unknown reason), the bigger chunks became asteroids; some of the smaller remains stampeded around the solar system as maverick meteors...