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...article, designed by shortage and marketed by need, appeared in Berlin's battered stores last week. It was a pocket sundial. Named after the inventor, thin, blond ex-Scientist Dr. Rudolf Rueter, the Rueter Watch consists of a Plexiglas-covered metal disc with turned-up edges and a magnetized dial which automatically faces north. A brass needle in the dial's center casts its time-telling shadow on two rows of figures (one for summer, one for winter) with half-hour accuracy. Berliners were gladly paying 25 marks ($2.50) for it; regular watches are not officially on sale...
...past five years, in one way or another, almost every able-bodied U.S. scientist has worked for the Office of Scientific Research and Development. This week OSRD quietly went out of business.* But scientists, who are diehard individualists, fear that they are not through with being bossed. In universities throughout the land, they are beginning to discover that they have acquired a new paymaster-the U.S. Army & Navy...
Thoughtful scientists are thoroughly alarmed. Is the military about to take over U.S. science, lock, stock & barrel, calling the tune for U.S. universities and signing up the best scientists for work fundamentally aimed at military results? Many a scientist believes that is exactly what is happening...
...shall never travel in the stratosphere again." Bird-necked Professor Auguste Piccard made that solemn promise to his wife in 1932, just after he had ballooned to the stratosphere from Switzerland and landed with a wallop across the Alps. Last week, still stuck with his pledge, the Swiss scientist announced that he would try exploring in the opposite direction: next February he will head for the bottom of the ocean...
With the new facilities it is expected that the exploitation of the possibilities of the machine will be pushed to greater heights of scientific research. Absolute accuracy and tremendous speed are the particular advantages which the machine brings about. It is capable of solving problems which no scientist could live long enough to finish...