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Curved Prongs. The predicted difficulty of spotting omega proved to be only too real. At least five search parties in separate laboratories reported no luck. Then, under the leadership of Yugoslav Physicist Dr. Bodgan C. Maglic, scientists at the University of California's famed Lawrence Radiation Laboratory analyzed 2,500 photographs of the four-prong stars found when antiprotons shot from Berkeley's bevatron accelerator collide with protons in a bubble chamber. Each star shows four curved lines made by negative and positive pions (pi mesons) created by the collision. There seemed to be a slight chance that...
...down the centuries. Mussolini banished thousands of political opponents to Ustica, often as many as 1,500 at a time; many were homosexuals who swished through the city streets in lipstick and silk pajamas, performed dances by night or staged bloody knife fights. In the early '40s Yugoslav war prisoners were crammed onto the island, bringing with them malnutrition and tuberculosis. In the '50s they were followed by suspected Mafia hoods expelled from Sicily...
Concludes the Moscow white paper: "World war between Communism and capitalism is not inevitable. It can and should be avoided. We have not been afraid of an open breach with the Yugoslav revisionists; and we shall not be afraid of an open breach with the Chinese dogmatists either...
...after a show trial that featured abject confessions in old Stalinist tradition, Hoxha, who openly prefers Mao to Khrushchev' shot four Communist Party officials for "spying." The trial got not a word in the Russian press. Reason: though the spies were accused of working for "Greek monarchist-fascists, Yugoslav revisionists and American imperialists," they were actually Khrushchev sympathizers...
...concert's end Keleman waited nervously for the commissar's reaction. Schoenberg, said Vucinic, was merely a "hybrid"-a musical petit bourgeois. "I prefer the outright revolutionary techniques," Keleman sighed with relief. Before the festival ended, the surprising official response had started the hottest rumor in the Yugoslav musical world: the Communist Party itself may commission an electronic work to celebrate the opening of the next Yugoslav party congress...