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...explanations of the aurora borealis over the centuries have been as colorful as the spectacle itself. When great luminous curtains seemed to swish and crackle in the sky, Norsemen knew that Valkyries were riding abroad. Midwestern Indians looked up and thought they saw the fires of northern medicine men making stew of their enemies. Today's Eskimos watch the polar pyrotechnics and mumble about the spirits of the dead. Modern science has still another theory...
Plants for Pellets. So far, Erie Mining's Aurora, Minn, plant is the only one producing the walnut-sized pellets in commercial quantities. U.S. Steel, which has felt no rush for substitutes because it owns the biggest share of the remaining rich ores, has been content to build two pilot plants. But Republic Steel and Armco, not as well supplied, 18 months ago went into taconites in a big way through their joint subsidiary, Reserve Mining Co. (TIME...
Quality at a Price. Erie Mining's plans are even bigger: a 5,000,000-ton production rate by 1957, and an eventual expansion to 10.5 million tons. It will build a huge, ore-concentrating plant four miles from its present Aurora plant, a 60-mile railroad down to two islands near Schroeder (on Lake Superior's north shore), and its own harbor for loading the pellets into ore boats...
Streamers of hydrogen gas from outer space are thought to be the source of aurora borealis (the "northern lights") according to a theory advanced yesterday by a University scientist...
...poured money into everything from Basic English to the Berkshire Music Festival, from "studies of the aurora borealis in Alaska to measurements of the velocity of light in California" and the 200-inch telescope on Palomar Mountain. Its fellowship programs have been a gigantic "gamble on talent" that have included such excellent bets as Enrico Fermi, Ernest O. Lawrence, inventor of the cyclotron, Ralph Bunche, Historian Arnold Toynbee (for a future book on international relations), Lord Beveridge, scores of young writers, hundreds of refugee scholars-even Dr. Kinsey...