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Using the best data he could find, Hess drew a temperature map for Mars. It turned out to look much like a terrestrial temperature map. In its "winter" hemisphere, Mars was deathly cold (about 40° below zero Fahrenheit at Lat. 50) and showed no sudden changes of temperature. Near the equator the temperature on Hess's map averaged 50° F. and in the sunny "summer" hemisphere there were two hot spots where Martian thermometers, if any, stood...
...divided into two zones along a line running west from the southern boundary of Virginia (36° 30' N. Lat.) with 1,948 counties in the northern zone, 1,147 in the southern. Only 82 counties-distributed helter-skelter across the country in both zones-reported no polio cases between 1932 and 1946-the period under study. Of the 83 counties which had had epidemics, all but seven were within the northern zone. But within this zone, no clear pattern was apparent...
...even the Army and Navy could not go airships were carrying agents soliciting clients for Lend-Lease. Thus the board, in July 1945, brought out a brochure on Tibet by which it appeared that the proper spelling of the name of the Tibetan village lying at the intersection of Lat. 27° 31' N and Long. 85° 14' E was Mendong Gomba, not Mendong Gompa, and that to call it Men-tung-Ssu was altogether incorrect...
...U.S.S.R., which like California delights in its own superlatives, is the proud possessor of "the coldest spot on earth." Last week Moscow radio announced that at a place in Siberia (Lat. 63 north, Long. 143 east) near the Sea of Okhotsk the thermometer recently dived to -70.2° Centigrade...
...weathermen first spotted the hurricane when it towered up off the West Indies, at about lat. 16° N., long. 60° W. It was a monstrous specimen-a spinning funnel of black storm with a 140-mile-an-hour gale lining its core of calm. For six days, moving as a body about 15 m.p.h., it churned a path 500 miles wide up & across the Atlantic. And for six days U.S. meteorologists clocked its forward progress, studied its habits, and charted its course (see SCIENCE). When it hit North Carolina's ocean bulge on the seventh...