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...game, wooden pegs (kangaroos) are used instead of balls and they are driven from a portable, slope-topped wooden tee-the projecting end of the kangaroo is struck with a sharp downward chop to send it jumping as in tiddlywinks. A set costs $12.50. There are four different-shaped kangaroos: the Turtle (for distance), the Speeder (for an accurate second shot), the Flash (to get over a high obstacle), the Torpedo (for a stop-dead approach or putt). Players carry their kangaroos in a canvas pouch not unlike a carpenter's apron...
...firm, and Mrs. Eleanor Young, 23 (ex-Mrs. Robert Ogden Bacon Jr., ex-Manhattan glamor girl), had taken off from Newport, R.I. in a Fairchild monoplane to fly to New York. At Matunuck, twelve miles down the coast, amateur Pilot Embiricos circled, found a rift in the fog, nosed downward for a landing. As he leveled off, a wave slapped the wings, and the plane crashed in shallow water. Embiricos died at the controls. Carried ashore by lifeguards, Mrs. Young died forty minutes later. Her dog was found dead in the surf, not far from the wreck...
...feeding plants with radioactive elements, California botanists have found to their surprise that plants can assimilate food downward as well as upward. More surprising was their discovery that "if barley plants are exposed to radio-nitrogen, a small quantity of labeled nitrogen compounds are formed in the tissues of the plants." This may well show, says Hamilton, that leguminous plants (clover, peas, etc.) are not unique in their power to fix atmospheric nitrogen...
...they retain much of the heat of the sun's interior, and they are still so highly ionized as to be invisible. But as they cool, the atoms become less ionized, and electrons rejoin their nuclei. Visible matter condenses apparently out of nothing into flaming tongues that rain downward toward...
...reason he revised it downward was that it did not allow for civilian rationing, such as the preliminary 20% cut in auto production already imposed. But "civilian" needs include many essential auxiliary defense products such as trucks, oil and railroad equipment, defense housing...