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Murray Gellmann and George Zweig, two American physicists, hypothesized separately in 1964 that quarks are matter's most basic building blocks. According to their theories, protons and neutrons which form atoms are composed of triads of even smaller particles known as quarks which carry fractional electrical charges...
...Fischer plays in 1975, chess lovers will surely be thankful; if he does not, the game will nevertheless survive -for reasons well expressed in a passage Cockburn quotes from Stefan Zweig's last story, The Royal Game: "Is it not an offensively narrow construction to call chess a game? Is it not a science too, a technique, an art, that sways among these categories as Mahomet's coffin does between heaven and earth, at once a union of all contradictory concepts: primeval, yet ever new; mechanical in operation, yet effective only through the imagination; bounded in geometric space...
...recent books in the category, Journalist-Novelist Marya Mannes has explored what may prove to be the most popular approach to death: treating it as a new civil rights issue. More than 40 years ago, Austrian Novelist and Playwright Stefan Zweig wrote: "Among the 'rights of man' there is a right which no one can take away, the right to croak when and where one pleases." This bald manifesto might serve as the banner that Miss Mannes marches under...
...fine edge of moral responsibility and idealism. Biblical Archaeologist Yigael Yadin, a former army Chief of Staff, concedes that one of Israel's greatest challenges is to secure the nation's spiritual imperatives while at the same time trying to preserve its physical existence. Sociologist Ferdynand Zweig puts the matter in a different way: "The contest between the mystique of violence and the mystique of redemption is the most fateful and crucial conflict on which the future of Israeli society depends...
Starr wrestled a close match against Penn's Rich Zweig, in a bout reminiscent of their 2-2 tie earlier this month. This time, Zweig executed a quick reverse in the closing seconds of the match and won 5-4. Starr took fifth place by drubbing Columbia's Bob Waller...