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During last month's critical decisions he averaged four hours of sleep each night, now he has perhaps six. The other 18 hours vanish in a succession of conferences, interviews, speechwriting, speechmaking (three a week on Radio Warsaw), and listening to dozens of workers' delegations from all over the country. A group of workers from Wroclaw asks about higher wages. A delegation from an association of collective farms seeks his ideas about farm policy. They all get a little of Gomulka's time. At 8 o'clock one night last week a batch of students, workers...
...force moved in. the pretext for Soviet intervention would vanish. But the conditions that made the threat possible-the hatreds and tensions, the obvious advantage to the Kremlin of involving the West in a drawn-out and profitless war there-remain...
Time to Retire. In Bingham, Utah, workers were threatened with "some disciplinary action" after they lost control of a 1,800-lb. road-grader tire they were rolling to amuse themselves during lunch hour, saw it careen down a mile-deep copper mine and vanish into a roadway, where it rolled to a town three-quarters of a mile away, bounced 30 ft. in the air, ripped open the second floor of a house...
...space ship from earth were to land on a planet of antimatter, it would I vanish in a puff of energy. But if a galaxy made of antimatter were to collide with an ordinary galaxy, their stars might not annihilate each other. In the vast emptiness of space, even within a galaxy, direct collisions between stars are extremely unlikely. But dust and gas between the stars would certainly come in contact. Each particle of normal matter would annihilate a particle of antimatter. The result would be a great increase in brightness. No such glowing collision has been observed, says Professor...
...relate, down to the last insufferable penny, how many thousands they spent in properly marrying off their own daughters. Bette Davis digs in her heels, insists that Debbie get a marriage as splendid as The Bronx can afford. Father Borgnine, a taxi driver, seeing the savings of 15 years vanish in an orgy of limousines, caviar and wedding receptions, roars like a wounded bull elephant. Debbie's best friend .blubbers her tragedy-with her husband unemployed, she cannot afford the matron of honor's gown. Appalled by these developments, Debbie and her fellow revert to Plan 1. They...