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...Scientific Monthly, Dutch-born Astronomer D. Ter Haar of the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, gives a roundup of evidence in support of the catastrophic theory. Ter Haar reasons that if the universe was formed at a single time, many objects in it should have roughly the same age. Then he gathers a collection of age estimates to see how closely they agree...
...Football Roundup (Sat. 2 p.m., CBS). Games from all over, with Red Barber...
...Timely Roundup. Like Ike, "Chichí" Remón, 45, is a professional soldier. But since Panama had no army, he had to go abroad for his education, graduating as a cavalry officer from Mexico's Military College. Back in Panama, he entered the National Police (the nation's only armed force) as a captain. At U.S. invitation, he later attended the famed old cavalry school at Fort Riley, Kans., where he became a crack shot and a good friend of the U.S. Pearl Harbor time found Chichi in a position to do his friends of the north...
...country to check up on owners of luxury yachts, big villas and costly cars. The move flushed some big game right away, e.g., one man who owned three cars, employed three servants and declared no income was soaked for $42,000 in taxes and penalties. In the first roundup, delinquencies of $86 million were uncovered. But again, skepticism reigned. Frenchmen shrugged and guessed that evaders who knew how to win political protection would not be caught; in any case, the tax system as well as tax enforcement needed remodeling from the ground...
...mass Freedomite arrest is the biggest roundup in a single day in British Columbia since 1932, when the Sons staged a similar protest against the school law. At that time, those convicted got 2½-year prison sentences. The punishment did not increase the Sons' respect for the law. But it did succeed in getting the Freedomite children into school: the youngsters were placed in foster homes and sent to classes regularly while their parents were in prison. Attorney General Bonner is apparently planning to use the same stern method to enforce the school law again...