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Within minutes of Camacho's arrest the police began seizing anyone considered suspicious within a half-mile radius of Madrid's Carabanchel Prison, where the illegal Communist Party had called a demonstration to demand amnesty for the rest of Spain's estimated 2000 political prisoners. The demonstration never started...
...Expansion of the "aircraft exemption." Now any truck or bus serving an airport needs ICC authorization if its operating radius exceeds 25 miles. This would be increased to 100 miles, presumably allowing more vehicles to serve wider areas...
Crimson receivers, particularly tight end Bob McDermott, had enough time to go out for a cup of coffee before each pass. There was rarely a Bruin defender within a ten-yard radius. It made you wonder if Brown's secondary had ever seen a pass before...
...postcards written by Albert Einstein between 1916 and 1918 to his friend the Dutch astronomer and mathematician Willem de Sitter. The discovery, reported in Nature, reveals an esoteric interchange between the two men about the theory of relativity. Einstein's observations range from the specific (he computed the radius of the universe as R=10' lightyears) to the metaphoric ("I compare space to a cloth ...") to the peevish ("Your solution corresponds to no physical possibility"). But the two scholars (De Sitter was 45 and Einstein 38 in 1917) frequently break off their strings of formulas to complain...
...really is a good thing, then, that the World Series is finally over, because nobody who has a nose can be a winner in an atmosphere so polluted by Sox fever. It's as if the government demanded that every person living within a 60-mile radius of Boston spend an hour each day in a room with a skunk...