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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...faint white clouds that sometimes drift across the red surface of Mars. The clouds indicated that Mars, like the earth, has "prevailing westerlies" as well as winds circulating around areas of high or low pressure. He thinks that the lot spots are probably "heat lows" like those that often form in summer in the U.S. southwest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Weather Report from Mars | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

...Netsilik tribe to Christianity. One day Father Henri saw the bodies of three newborn girls abandoned in the snow: this was the Eskimos' traditional way of solving their surplus population problem. Father Henri arranged for Eskimo parents to get the Canadian baby bonus, usually in the form of hunting supplies. Now the practice of infanticide has virtually disappeared among the Netsilik...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Red One | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

...Precedents. Medicine does not know for certain how joined twins are formed. Most authorities believe that the splitting of an ovum, which would form identical twins, is somehow arrested before the split is complete. Others, pointing out that Siamese twins show marked differences in height and weight, features and temperament, believe that two separate embryos from different ova may join...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Siamese Twins | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

...companies, which had known for weeks that the suit was brewing, had blanket denials (one in the form of a television film) ready for immediate release. Their most telling point: a federal grand jury had investigated their records without returning an indictment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Seven Up | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

...Bulldogs have a smooth infield, especially around second base, where shortstop Eddie Smith and Captain Chris Emerson form a well-balanced double-play combination about equal to the Crimson keystone pair, Walt Greeley and John Canepa...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tossup Expected as Young Blues Vie With '53 Nine | 5/19/1950 | See Source »

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