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...Like a thief in the night, Jesus will snatch up your loved ones. Little Billy and Mary will be taken from their beds, your husband may disappear without a trace. Engineers will vanish from the cabs of speeding trains, pilots from their planes. Those left behind will run frantically through the streets, meaning and tearing their hair." By this point, the crowd had reached a state of frenzied despair. "Oh Jesus spare me," screamed a white-haired old man. Several women in the fourth row were looking at a train schedule to see how soon they could leave town...
...Lust-Putty." Hero Bill Gaunt, a Wylie-minded philosopher, suffers much as his fellow men do when, without warning or explanation, all wives and daughters vanish from the face of the earth. A host of domestic chores such as he has never suspected fall into his philosophical lap; his shiny Miami home becomes a filthy, desolate, loveless stew, and Gaunt himself an unkempt, ragged relict in a life that has lost its meaning...
...soon as it became evident that the Government of the U.S. might vanish in one cloudy instant if an A-bomb landed in downtown Washington, the idea struck Government planners: Why not move the tempting targets and save the city? Last week President Truman asked Congress for $139,800,000 to begin a dispersal of key agencies...
...latest country to vanish behind the censorship curtain is Communist China. On the Chinese mainland last week, there was one Western newsman left-a French correspondent at Shanghai who could not file a word. All the rest had withdrawn to the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong, where they were trying to cover the story of China's 450 million people from publications printed in Red China and by picking up stray bits from "well-informed travelers" (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...with the "binding force" that holds atomic nuclei together, but there is no complete theory to explain how they operate. Columbia's physicists hope that their new cyclotron, which generates plenty of mesons, may dig out many of their secrets. One possibility: that two colliding mesons may both vanish, suddenly, turning wholly into energy...