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...help to Generalissimo Franco would be reduced, not increased. Three months ago a token withdrawal of 10,000 Italian troops from Spain took place. On that showing Mr. Chamberlain implemented an Anglo-Italian treaty. Although Dictator Mussolini was expected to demand of the Prime Minister at Rome next week (see p. 21) that Britain grant belligerent rights to Rebel Spain, from London last week came hints that Mr. Chamberlain, for his part, would plead with Il Duce at least to stop boasting about Italy's part in the Spanish Civil...
...muscled by the French in 1881-they have a juster claim to a foothold on the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb, the 15-mile-wide channel between the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden now dominated by French Somaliland on one side and British Aden on the other (see map). Those who control Bab-el-Mandeb control the southeastern vestibule to the Mediterranean...
Four weeks ago, three days apart, Cadet Stella was elected captain of the Army football team for 1939, Midshipman Bergner was elected captain of the Navy football team for 1939. At last week's powwow, Kankakeemen, puffed with pride, appointed a delegation to see President Roosevelt to try to get next year's Army-Navy game transferred from Philadelphia to Chicago...
Ever since 1869, when 50 long-trousered, bewhiskered Princeton and Rutgers students kicked a "bag of wind" up & down a 360-yd. field to see which side could kick it between the goal posts six times, the U.S. game of football has undergone almost as many changes as women's hats. Last week when the American Football Coaches Association met in Chicago for their annual rule-tinkering, they wrote an extraordinary page into the annals of the sport. The world might be going politically and economically arsy-versy, but the coaches failed to recommend a single major football change...
Electron Microscopes now attract much attention among scientists who want to see ever smaller & smaller things. The magnification of ordinary microscopes is limited by the wave nature of light. Some things are so small that they slip through the meshes of the light rays like BB shot through a tennis net. Instead of a beam of light the electron microscope utilizes a beam of electrons, which have wave lengths thousands of times shorter than visible light but also make impressions on photographic plates...