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...last week, the planetarium had received more than 18,000 reservations and requests for information. A man from Munich, Germany wanted to build a hotel on the moon, and a bellhop from Marion, Ohio a skating rink on Venus. A New York fur broker asked about trapping rights; a radio cowboy saw a chance "to get in on the ground floor of radio business on Venus...
...winter day in Labrador some 30 years ago, a fur trader named Clarence Birdseye caught a fish, watched it freeze instantly in the 50° below zero temperature. Days later, he dropped the fish into a pail of water to thaw it out, was amazed to see the fish flip its tail and swim about. Birdseye decided that he had "unlocked one of nature's secrets"-and also hit upon a new way to preserve food. When he returned to civilization (i.e., his home in Gloucester, Mass.), he developed a mechanical quick-freezing process and thereby laid the foundation...
Duane (an amateur entomologist) and Tyler (a spectroscopist) teamed up to test the possibility that female moths send-and the males receive-mating calls in infrared (heat) waves. The researchers first took the temperature of the female night-mating moth with a tiny thermocouple buried in the fur of her thorax. They found that it might be as much as 11° above the temperature of the surroundings. Since all warm objects radiate in the infrared, the conclusion was that a hot-blooded female moth "must literally 'shine' against a background of cool forest objects...
...Gold, president of the leftist International Fur & Leather Workers' Union, also cut himself off, publicly, from the Communist Party this week. Gold, however, made it plain that he was resigning only so that his union could comply with the Taft-Hartley Law, and that after 30 years he was still as good a Red as ever. The New York Daily Worker, which ignored Lee Pressman's switch completely, clucked sympathetically over Ben Gold, who to hold his job would have to hide his true colors...
...State Department counted red Russian noses in the U.S., last week reported that the Soviet embassy staff in Washington, the Soviet delegation to the United Nations, plus assorted Tass correspondents, Amtorg men, children, wives and babushki totaled 410. Total U.S. citizens-diplomats and dependents (113), correspondents (5), fur buyers (12), etc. -now in the U.S.S.R...