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Seated at an International Business Machines Corp. electronic computer last week, a girl who understands not a word of Russian punched out the message: Mi pyeryedayem mislyi posryedstvom ryech-yi. In a few seconds the mechanical "brain" spewed out a translation from Russian to English: "We transmit thoughts by means of speech...
Braving 20° weather, Harry and Bess Truman, along with daughter Margaret, who came home for the holidays, mustered slightly frozen smiles at a ceremony in Independence, Mo., where the former President snipped a 30-ft. red ribbon to open a new section of the 20-mi. Truman Road trafficway. Later, warming up to his subject at an indoor luncheon, Truman made a plea for safer driving, said he hoped the thoroughfare "will be used for traffic instead of a new scene for slaughter...
...which pay workers as little as 50? a day, make everything from floridly painted aluminum spittoons for African natives to ivory chessmen and bamboo furniture for American tourists. More than 400 companies with 80 million Hong Kong dollars capital are still waiting for sites within the small (391 sq. mi.) colony, and the government is working on a plan to create a new industrial zone to meet the demand...
Dinkas & Bongos. That was at Juba, 750 miles south of Khartoum (pop. 82,700). The pattern was the same last week all over the 1,000,000 sq. mi. of desert, swamp and irrigated cotton land of the Sudan. In an area larger than the U.S. east of the Mississippi, 1,250,000 tribesmen, nine out of ten of them illiterate, were riding on bullocks or camels, trekking across dunes and marshes, to 2,000 polling booths, where the magic papers lay. Six of Sudan's eight millions are Northerners, who worship Allah but still practice female circumcision...
Plenty of seedable clouds, says Dr. Bowen, drift over Australia without springing a leak. An area of some 1,000,000 sq. mi. to the west of the Great Dividing Range of eastern Australia is chronically in need of rain, and Bowen is sure that cloud-seeding can increase the precipitation of this area by a critical 50%. In northern Australia, the important thing is to make the rain come at the right time. This can be done, Bowen thinks, by seeding the yearly monsoon clouds, which often build up for weeks before rain begins to fall...