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...small, uncharged particles) in their calculations. Neutrinos are necessary: without them many nuclear equations would not balance, and the massive branches of nuclear theory might fall to the ground. But no known apparatus has ever detected neutrinos. They were reasoned into existence by Nobel Prizewinners Enrico Fermi and Wolfgang Pauli to fill a theoretical need, and the gnawing suspicion has long persisted that they do not exist. Last week from the Atomic Energy Commission came big news. Neutrinos do exist...
...lean toward whimsy and traditional fairy tales. Captain Video plunges the adolescent into the science-fiction world of interplanetary travel and electronic marvels. It features epic, if inconclusive struggles between the forces of Good, headed by humorless Captain Video, and Evil, personified by a hand-rubbing eccentric named Doctor Pauli who, as president of the Astrodial Society, pettishly wants to destroy the earth...
...waterfront sector of St. Pauli, dozens of nightclubs stretch along a half-mile of neon lights on the Reeperbahn. Seamen of all nations dance with heavily rouged "animation ladies," and pay Stork Club prices for flaccid German champagne. The rule at the Bal Paradox is that the women ask the men to dance. In Hamburg's railroad station is the Treffpunkt agency: for 25 marks ($5.95) a man can leaf through a photo album, select a girl, arrange a date. Says proud Treffpunkt Manager Max Pollack: "All my girls are high-class, and you'd be surprised...
...first Jewish entertainers to make a postwar hit. Her audience, which had followed her from the Femina Club to the Kabarett der Komiker, heard her intone: "Come back, come back, I am waiting for you, for you are my happiness" and "Under the red lantern of St. Pauli [in Hamburg's famed red-light district] my girl stands waiting...
...Physics prizewinner for 1945 was Vienna-born Professor Wolfgang Pauli, 45, who had worked since 1940 in the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, N.J. Professor Pauli is an authority on quantum mechanics, that nightmarish never-never branch of science where solid matter begins to dissolve into waves and energy...