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...detector was designed by Chemist Raymond Davis Jr. of Brookhaven National Laboratory. Shielded from all other radiation by the rock above, the detector consists of a 100,000-gal. vat of a cleaning fluid called tetrachloroethylene. A small number of incoming neutrinos collide with chlorine atoms in the fluid. The collisions convert the chlorine to radioactive atoms of the element argon, which can then be counted. Davis calculated a year ago that on the basis of what scientists know and theorize about the sun, less than one-fifth as many neutrinos are radiating from it as would be expected...
...popped out of a cake and walked a tightrope. The hit of the evening was a pie-throwing skit written by Director Claude Chabrol and starring Actor Marcello Mastroianni. Marcello then scrubbed himself down and returned for the 3 a.m. finale when the whole company dished up a giant vat of steaming spaghetti for the audience...
What finally touched off the re tailers' revolt was Belgium's value-added tax (VAT). Nixon Administration officials have talked of calling for the same sort of national sales tax in the U.S., and most other European countries already have one. But the VAT that Belgium introduced last year is the most complicated of all: it has four different rates, from 6% on food to 25% on liquor. Retailers angrily protest that the resulting paperwork is intolerable. Says Mrs. Maria Hendrickx, half of a husband and wife vegetable-selling team in Brussels: "My husband can buy vegetables...
There is little chance that the government will repeal the hated VAT or grant another of the strikers' demands -government restraints on the expansion of chain stores. What the store owners gained is the memory of two glorious days in which they proved that they too can revolt. But in the long run, many of Belgium's shopkeepers, like those of other nations, will probably be replaced by larger retailers...
...general revenue sharing," which has just gone into effect, there are no restrictions at all on how the money can be used.) Payment of the promised $16 billion a year for schools and property-tax relief would almost certainly be long delayed or would have to be financed by VAT...