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...Monarchs, and naturalists have assumed that they taste bad. Dr. Urquhart tried Monarchs and found that they have hardly any taste, resembling dry toast. So he was not surprised to find that birds eat labeled Monarchs without hesitation. The bit of white paper seems to spoil a natural color pattern that keeps birds away...
...policy has begun to pay off in growth if not yet in increased profits. Sales in McCall's pattern division rose 15% in 1956. McCall's circulation increased 242,000 to 4,756,839, along with a 5% rise in ads. Redbook, which earlier switched its appeal from fiction to articles for young homemakers, boosted its circulation 114,000 to 2,286,500 in 1956, picked up another...
...billion ($1 billion below U.S. Steel) could actually increase steel-industry competition. For the first time there would be a real rival for U.S. Steel, the undisputed monolith (first in capacity in ten of twelve major steel-producing categories) whose wage and price decisions have hitherto set the industry pattern...
...turning point something went wrong-perhaps a failure in the Snark's guidance system. Ignoring its ground-to-electronic-brain orders, the errant missile veered sharply out of flight pattern and shot westward. When the missile's ground-locked pilots realized it was out of control, they pushed the button that was supposed to blow it up in midair. But the Snark refused to commit suicide. When last seen by radar, it was slipping over the South American horizon. Happily, it carried no warhead...
Numbers Game. The most exciting postwar news for Rossby was the appearance of high-speed electronic computing machines. Meteorologists had often dreamed of "numerical forecasting," i.e., predicting the future actions of the atmosphere by applying mathematical equations to its current pattern, but they were stopped at once by two difficulties: 1) they did not know the proper equations, and 2) they would have to do so much figuring that they could not keep up with the weather, let alone forecast it. British Meteorologist L. F. Richardson described in 1922 a forecasting center built like a gigantic theater, with...