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...come to hear him. The voice can become gutty as a trumpet, musky with melancholy, or high and tremulous as a flute. It may take on the high, clipped inflection of the West Indies, the open-throated drawl of the bayou country, the softly rounded burr of the Scotch borderland...
Died. Irving Langmuir, 76, first U.S. industrial chemist to win (1932) the Nobel Prize, prolific experimenter in what he called the "borderland of chemistry and physics," a "pure research" staffer at General Electric Co.'s research lab for 41 years, and a pioneer rainmaker; of a coronary thrombosis; in Falmouth, Mass. Langmuir once said: "Whatever work I've done, I've done for the fun of it." His fun included such breakthrough inventions as the gas-filled light bulb and the high-vacuum power tube (the heart of modern radio and TV broadcasting...
...admired the Afghan breed, used a different descriptive phrase-a papyrus from 4000 B.C. refers to the swift dogs that roamed the Sinai desert as "monkey-faced." No one knows how or when the seed of the breed was transported to Afghanistan, but all along the wild, high borderland of northern India the great hounds became a royal canine family. They were smart enough to herd sheep, swift enough to run down deer, sturdy enough to tangle with leopards. Their broad, high-set hips lent unusual agility to their natural speed. They have been called "gaze hounds" because they spotted...
Situated in the borderland of the Sahara and the Sudan, 175-mile-long Lake Chad is the last fragment of a sprawling inland sea estimated to have been roughly the size of the Caspian. It once constituted an inland trading route and a favorite hunting ground of pirates. But long before it was first sighted by Europeans in 1823, the lake began receding before the southward encroachment of the Sahara Desert. Scientists suspect that it was also draining away through an underground outlet. As Chad was transformed into a wilderness of swamplands and papyrus jungles, its water level dropped...
Under the black slag heaps and airborne soot of the Franco-Belgian borderland lie coal mines that plunge deep-2,000, 2,500, 3,000 ft.-into the bowels of the earth, using obsolete equipment and backbreaking labor to eke out small hauls from old veins. Close by the small town of Marcinelle is the mine called Amercoeur, the "Bitter Heart." There one morning last week, 302 miners-115 of them Belgians, 139 Italians-dropped 3,105 ft. underground in their steel-cage elevators to their daily jobs at the coal face. Above ground the miners' families, mostly poor...