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...best chance for a win is in the 100-yard breaststroke, a distance at which he posted a 1:01.9 time in a relay split this winter. Yale's Dick Traver is expected to give the Crimson sophomore his roughest competition, though there is a possibility of some unknown superstars at the unusual distance...
...biggest unknown in today's contest is the number of voters who will write in Lodge's name on the ballot. If the number is large, the division of moderate voters may pull Rockefeller's total below Goldwater's. But if citizens heed Rockefeller's plea to "vote for one of the candidates who has openly declared himself a candidate, and who has traveled in the state to discuss the issues with you," then the united moderates may overwhelm the Goldwater backers...
...existence of God and drains meaning from the rest of the play. "The Angel of Death," a satanic concentration camp doctor who "selects" those who will die from those who will live a little longer, taunts Father Riccardo with the emptiness of his death. His martyrdom will be unknown and unfelt. Is he dying for the Jews, when his own church has, in centuries past, itself persecuted the Jews? If God exists, why does inexplicable evil persist and triumph? "God is silent," mocks the Angel of Death. Father Riccardo finds no words or divine illumination to refute the silence...
...these being simply that each of his four books was so good that it seemed unlikely that the author could write another at the same level. A second surprise is that no cult has gathered since Wallant's death. Ordinarily, the work of a brilliant and relatively unknown writer would, at his death, quickly be walled into a shrine and suffused with critical incense, as happened to Nathanael West. But West raged at chaos, and rage can be read as hate, which is a suitable cult emotion. Wallant's transcendent gift was for compassion, and in his writing...
Omega-Minus Signature. The unknown particle predicted by the eightfold way was named omega minus, and both CERN Laboratory in Geneva and Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island started elaborate campaigns to find it. Brookhaven's apparatus was built around the 33-bev (billion electron volt) Alternating Gradient Synchrotron, and it used a line of magnets and electrostatic separators 400 ft. long to isolate negative K-mesons. Ten of the K-mesons were allowed to enter Brookhaven's 80-in. liquid-hydrogen bubble chamber every 2½ seconds, and pictures were taken of the results. Two pictures...