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...startled by Schevill's request. He is always asking colleagues to eavesdrop on sperm whales-not when the whales are puffing and blowing on the surface, but while they are submerged. Schevill wants to pin down once and for all the ancient reports that big (up to 65 ft.) sperm whales "talk" to each other beneath the surface, although they have no vocal cords. Last week's issue of the British magazine Nature carries a report by Schevill and L. Valentine Worthington, an oceanographer on the Institution's Atlantis, that produces scientific evidence to support what oldtime...
Last week the 8,471,637 inhabitants of Tokyo's 789 square miles* were hurtling to and from their homes and offices in 900 overcrowded tramcars, 860 jammed buses, 14.3 miles of pin-neat subway tunnels, 240,000 autos, and 12,451 desperately driven taxis, popularly known as "kamikazes." To enforce the law in their burgeoning metropolis, Tokyoites have the services of 22,334 policemen (now equipped with nightsticks and U.S.-made .38-cal. revolvers instead of swords). One of the police force's biggest headaches: a spreading rash of crimes of violence by the spiv and Teddy...
From there on, the way was clear for Khrushchev to pin the rap on Malenkov. In February 1955, when Malenkov was ousted as Premier, one of the charges against him in secret party councils was that he was "co-responsible for the Leningrad Case." And two weeks ago, in Khrushchev's speech to the Elektrosila factory workers came the blunt, public denunciation: "Malenkov, who was one of the most important organizers of the so-called Leningrad Case, was simply afraid to come here to you in Leningrad...
...embryos develop into monsters, but since the technique required with mammals is rather complicated, he now works almost entirely with hens' eggs. He cuts a hole in the shell and exposes the embryo, which in fresh-laid eggs is about as big as the head of a pin. Even at this early stage he knows what parts will develop into the head, wings or legs. By damaging the proper cells with a hair-thin beam of X rays, he can make the chick into a Cyclops. He can prevent wings from growing, or he can make the legs fuse...
Proposed costume for Actress Jayne Mansfield playing the Prince of Denmark [June 24]: "black tights, bare bodkin." Bodkin threw me for a loop, so I referred to my faithful dictionary, which states that a bodkin is "an instrument for drawing tape through a hem, a pointed instrument . . . a pin for fastening the hair." Even on Miss Mansfield, I can't imagine anything less interesting than a "bare bodkin...