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...northern Zululand's subtropical bush, an army of hunters stood poised for the greatest game hunt in South African history. This week, at a signal from Scientist Gilles De Kock, they would raise their guns and assagais (spears), and plunge into the jungle. Quarry: the tsetse...
Julius Miklowitz, 27 year old research scientist, won a $1000 Westinghouse Research Scholarship which he will use on further work for a doctorate in applied mechanics here at the University...
Miklowitz has worked with Westinghouse since 1943 as a research scientist on government work. He has helped conduct a series of experiments to develop a stranger steel for military...
...earth is round, all right-but not round like a bourgeois ball; it has a more complicated, more Russian shape. So a Soviet scientist announced recently. Since 1940, said Professor Alexander Alexandrovich Izotov, he and fellow Russian geodesists have painstakingly remeasured significant areas of the earth. Their measurements make expanding Russia bigger than ever...
...Tightrope. Headlines in Paris papers had trumpeted: "Tomorrow the world is going to blow up," and Scientist Robert Esnault-Pelterie had warned that Crossroads might well start a fatal chain reaction. On the appointed Day of Wrath, a load of wooden wine caskets broke loose from a truck in Casablanca, French Morocco, and hollowly thundered on the cobbled street. That touched off riots: thousands of Arabs were sure that the Angel Israfil was summoning them to their doomsday tightrope, whence (so said the Prophet) the damned would fall into hell...