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The Poles, who are noted for their bitter political humor, are asking an ironic riddle these days. What is the difference between Gierek and Gomulka? The answer: there is none-but Gierek does not know it.
That is all too harsh a judgment of Edward Gierek, 58, the pragmatic technocrat who took over as party leader after Wladyslaw Gomulka, 66, was forced to resign because of last December's Baltic coast riots. In fact, Gierek has done many things that Gomulka in recent years would...
Amid a riot of banners, 10,000 students took time out from examinations last week and began marching toward Mexico City's giant Monument of the Revolution. They were protesting, among other things, the continued imprisonment of 40 students arrested during the October 1968 antigovernment demonstrations in the capital...
Another kind of cart carries passengers from check-in counters to aircraft loading areas at Tampa's shiny new $80 million terminal. Called "horizontal elevators," these conveyances run on rubber wheels, have no seats but offer plenty of vertical safety poles to cling to, and are designed to operate...
A magnetic monopole is a magnetized particle which has only one pole-either north or south-rather than both poles as all other known magnetic objects have. Since Dirac first proposed monopoles in 1931, these elusive particles have been surprisingly useful in answering some of the fundamental questions of the...