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Every special-purpose tool is an industrial problem in itself. Last week Cincinnati Milling engineers were poring over a book just received from an aircraft company, describing a new kind of bomber landing gear. "These are not blueprints," said one engineer. "They just explain what [the company] wants and leave...
All Star Revue (Sat. 8 p.m., NBCTV) brings Comedian Jimmy Durante back to the air in the first of eight shows this year with a walloping 60 minutes of gags, songs and malapropisms ("I have an apperntment with some NBC indignitaries"). Unlike most revues, this one is not cluttered with...
In collaboration with British-born Anthropologist Gregory Bateson, Swiss-born Dr. Jurgen Ruesch has written Communication, the Social Matrix of Psychiatry (Norton; $4.50), in an attempt to tie insanity and psychiatry with communication engineering and other sciences (among them, cybernetics) into a single system. Samples from Ruesch's chapters...
Last summer the Jirps established their headquarters on a "nunatak," a rocky island in the Taku glacier. The scientists analyzed it for layers of summer pollen grains and proved that they could be used like the growth rings of a tree to measure the age of the ice. They explored...
When streptomycin was found in a shovelful of New Jersey dirt (TIME, Jan. 29, 1945), Pfizer added it to its line, while continuing a search for an antibiotic of its own. Since no one ever knows where a new antibiotic will be turned up (the purest penicillin strain was discovered...