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Jimmy Lee Jackson was shot in the stomach two weeks ago; he died last Friday morning. His death will probably prove, for the ten thousandth time, that it is not a crime for a white man to kill a Negro (or a civil rights worker) in the Deep South...
...become President of France in 1958 the obvious parallels between Gaullism and royalism have been stretched perilously thin. To remark that De Gaulle tends to think and act more like a king than an elected official is both true and important. To remark the same thing for the thousandth time is perhaps amusing but rather pointless. The resemblances between De Gaulle and Louis XIV or Napoleon still make handy gimmicks for political cartoonists, but they have long since ceased to illuminate the methods and aims of French government...
...Australians reported in Nature that Vega, the first star measured by the new instrument, turns out to have an apparent diameter of 0.0037 seconds of arc, about one five-hundred-thousandth of the breadth of the full moon. Since the distance of Vega is known, its absolute diameter can be calculated as 2,800,000 miles-about 3.2 times the size...
...silicon. At Texas Instruments, which shares leadership in the microcircuitry field with Motorola and Fairchild Camera, engineers have developed a piece of silicon the size of a split pea into which they have fused the equivalent of 38 transistors, five capacitors and 26 resistors-a complete circuit one-thousandth the size of a similar vacuum-tube circuit and one-hundredth that of a transistorized...
Brewing the stuff is no simple matter. First, the water must be distilled, redistilled and further purified to remove all contaminants. Then each of 18 amino acids must be weighed out, to the thousandth of a gram, and dissolved. With the same micrometric accuracy, 16 vitamins are added, plus glucose, eleven salts, and ethyl linoleate-a fatty-acid substance. Finally, flavor is added. So far, only fruit flavors have proved practical. An attempt to give the volunteers a ration with a smoked-ham flavor failed because of interaction with the amino acids...