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Each day in Paris, three cargo planes laden with newspapers leave Orly Airport to scatter their cargo across France. On the ground, six trains, 350 cars, 211 motorcycles and 400 bicycles mobilize all over the country for much the same mission. All the carriers have something else in common besides their freight. They are rolling for a French publishing house called Hachette...
...Cuba-efficiency and equipment. Early one morning last week, the Cuban government reported, two unidentified twin-engine bombers appeared in the dark skies over the provincial city of Santa Clara, 186 miles east of Havana. Antiaircraft batteries filled the air with flak, but the planes managed to scatter their load of bombs before flying away...
...team sit down -amidst broken glass in a Methodist schoolhouse-to interview local councilors. In Miri, Sarawak's oil-refining center, 3,000 Chinese-SUPPorted youths, wielding stones and bottles, screamed anti-Malaysia slogans until the police opened fire, wounding two, and tear gas forced them to scatter...
There could surely be no water waves, since the temperature of Mercury on its permanently sunlit side is 1,800° F. The roughness of Mercury could be due to any irregularities more than a foot or so in width-large enough to scatter the 5-in. waves of the Goldstone transmitter. If Mercury's surface were smoother than that, the radar waves would be reflected from a small highlight in the center of the disk. Instead, the planet is radar bright all over, which means that its whole surface must have irregularities that bounce radar waves back toward...
...Russia and the U.S. would use nuclear weapons at all, or only in Europe, or whether the two "champions" might not "hurl death reciprocally into each others' vitals." Critics who say France's deterrent is useless or too expensive are in "the same category of laggards and scatter-brains who cried. 'No heavy artillery' until 1914," and before 1939 "cried, 'No armored corps! No fighter aircraft...