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...hour later, reports came in. Tracked by radar and captured German optical instruments, the rocket had climbed 75 miles into the ionosphere. Three minutes after its start, it hurtled downward, hit the ground 39 miles to the northward at 2,400 miles an hour, and, reported a watching Army flyer, buried itself in sand with a gush of flame...
...backward U.S. country districts last week (and not-so-backward ones, too), "water witches" paced solemnly, holding forked twigs of peachwood, hazel, willow or witch-hazel, the butts pointed upward. Some muttered incantations; some prayed; some were intensely silent. At last the twig swung downward or spun around wildly...
College enrollment will hit a post-war peak of approximately 2700 by the end of mid-year registration for students in residence, figures revised downward since Friday by the Registrar's office showed early yesterday. More than 1400 men who were in the College during the fall term are expected to tie through Mem Hall's alleys between 9 and 5 o'clock today...
Under the new plan, member nations must fix the par value of their currencies in terms of gold or U.S. dollars, within a time limit fixed by the Fund, and cannot later revise the value more than 10% upward or downward without the approval of the Fund. France, by devaluing the franc, has come close to a realistic value. In many another country official valuations are nearly meaningless. Poland, which has hopefully signed the Fund agreement, still keeps an official value of 19? on the zloty, but recently a dollar would bring as much as 600 zlotys in Stettin. Greece...
...great vessels rising from it like pipes from a furnace. He selected a medium-sized artery that normally carries blood to the head and arm, clamped it to prevent loss of blood, cut it through and tied off the useless upper end. The lower end he pulled downward and stitched into a hole he had made in the side of a pulmonary artery, thus bypassing the pulmonary artery's narrow entrance. While he was making the stitches, the left pulmonary artery had to be clamped for half an hour. And all the time the operation was going...