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...over the U.S. last week Boy Scouts were on the march-not across hills and through woods, but over pavements and alleys. No longer do they search for sticks to rub together to start camp fires. Now they hunt trash conveyances-trash to collect. They are Public Scavenger Service...
Like a man searching for a dropped collar button in the dark, astronomers are searching the southern sky. They know that what they are looking for is there, somewhere: a planet as big as Earth, but some 35 times farther from the sun (well beyond reach of the naked eye). Its existence and gravitational pull are postulated by Mount Wilson Observatory's R.S. Richardson to explain why Halley's comet embarrassed astronomers by showing up three days late in 1910. Search for the new planet may take 25 years (like Pluto), or only 18 months (like Neptune)-both...
...heart overflowing with sympathy, we returned to the Sever quadrangle in search of the little nipper who had once owned our copy of the Anniversary Guide. He was gone; perchance (unfortunate one!) to the Union, or even...who knows...to some happy hunting ground where life is one long reunion, the valuables are all hidden away and no one knows anybody else's name...
...Argentine politics. The much he can prevent is a unanimous Government-bloc support to Acting President Ramon S. Castillo's policy of refusing belligerent collaboration with the Allies. Between President Ortiz and ex-President Agustin P. Justo, Argentine pro-war groups flutter uncertainly in search of leadership...
...Balkans. Under such a threat the trial of two Russians for the attempted assassination of Ambassador Franz von Papen had proceeded with scrupulous honesty and little conclusive evidence. The Turks resented Russian press attacks and bullying demands that the defendants be released. But, like Ambassador Steinhardt's search for new wineglasses, the trial was incidental to bigger things. For in the spring of 1942 Turkey looked farther ahead. When & if the belligerents exhausted themselves Turkey's now neutral army might well be a factor in the future of Europe...