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From stem to stern, the Eltanin sprouts radio and radar antennas. The biggest of them, an imposing array of two intersecting squares, is specially designed to listen for "whistlers," the strange, low-frequency radio signals that strike down from outside the atmosphere. Most whistlers heard in the Antarctic are believed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Cold & Boiling Sea | 2/16/1962 | See Source »

Hay at 50?. Now thoroughly respectable, Charles Town Race Course is the biggest business in all of Jefferson County, employs 1,200, and boasts a $5 million plant-including a heated clubhouse and a three-quarter-mile track that is specially designed to provide good footing, even when it is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Only Wheel in Town | 1/19/1962 | See Source »

When they arrived they were greeted by the King's press secretary, who announced: "the King reads books at a prodigious rate and therefore has a lightning grasp of the weather conditions in his kingdom and of all the statistical, economic, political, social, and philosophical factors of the situation. Since...

Author: By Josiah LEE Auspitz, | Title: Chicken Little | 1/16/1962 | See Source »

Originally most of the waste was dumped at sea. The materials were packed into 55-gal. drums marked with AEC's radioactivity insigne, a white cloud with four lightning bolts shooting out of it. The drums were lined with 2 to 10 in. of cement, sealed with more cement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Atom: What to Do with the Waste | 1/12/1962 | See Source »

Nehru finds Menon witty, intelligent, provocative. Besides, he serves as a kind of lightning rod for other left-wing Indian intellectuals who might harass (and bore) Nehru far more if it were not for Menon's position close to the Prime Minister. Involved in a close race in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: MENON'S WAR | 12/29/1961 | See Source »

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