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...Idea of the Whole. Jan Smuts had always been in the fray-as statesman and soldier, as author, orator, mountain-climber, scientist, philosopher. He had been such an indefatigable participant in his time's great events that the world came to think of him as one of its great men. More honored abroad than at home, for more than 40 years he made the voice of his far-off country heard in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Fighting Holist | 9/18/1950 | See Source »

...them worked on the principle of spraying dry ice or silver iodide into fat, moisture-laden clouds, forcing them to disgorge their watery vapors which fall as rain. The man behind the principle was an energetic, 69-year-old scientist named Dr. Irving Langmuir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Weather or Not | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

What Do Ants Do? As a cautious scientist, Irving Langmuir himself would never go so far as Julius Slutsky's guests. But he is convinced nonetheless that man can make rain if he goes about it at the right time and in the right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Weather or Not | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

...plant (four employees), there arrested the owner, Abraham Brothman, 36, and a blonde, comely colleague, Miriam Moskowitz. FBI officials identified the pair as two more links in the Soviet atomic spy chain which the U.S. started to unreel early this year after the arrest of the British atomic scientist, Dr. Klaus Fuchs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: Two More Links | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

Salves for "curing" cancer of the breast have long been among the most infamous of quack nostrums. Last week a salve got a respectable introduction to some distinguished physicians. At the Fifth International Cancer Congress in Paris, an earnest German scientist reported encouraging results in treating breast cancer with a salve containing a chemical derived from a common garden bulb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: From the Autumn Crocus | 7/31/1950 | See Source »

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