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Long ago, the Israeli government had decided that to bury Eichmann's remains would mean desecrating Israeli soil. So, in a nickel container, Eichmann's ashes were taken 18 miles out to sea aboard an Israeli patrol boat and, as the sun rose over the mist-hung Mediterranean, scattered to the winds and water...
...observe the effects of its space explosions, the AEC has deployed a net of supersensitive instruments, some of them halfway around the world. These mechanical observers will watch the sky for auroras, feel the soil for electric currents, measure changes in the earth's magnetic field. At least two U.S. satellites now in orbit also carry equipment to observe the experiments, and foreign scientists are preparing for their own test watch. Before each explosion, the AEC has promised, all the world's laboratories will get advance word of when to watch for electrical disturbances, spreading like gigantic ripples...
...heyday of Empire, on British-officered native troops to help man its overseas outposts. Last week the best of the overseas hirelings appeared in Britain itself; a contingent of 1,200 Gurkha troops filed off a troopship at Southampton, to become the first foreign mercenaries ever stationed on English soil...
Oxford Archaeologist M. J. Aitken explained to the conference why almost any disturbance of the soil shows up on the magnetometer. Topsoil is generally more magnetic than soil below it, so when a ditch or cellar gradually fills with material washed from the surface, it distorts the earth's magnetic field enough to be detected by the magnetometer despite several yards of debris...
Last year archaeologists took a magnetometer to the flat plain of the ancient Crathis. After only ten days of work, they located 800 yds. of a city wall buried under many feet of soil, and test pits turned up pottery fragments from the 6th century B.C., when Sybaris was at its glittering peak. British, U.S. and Italian archaeologists will continue to crisscross the area with detailed magnetometer surveys to guide large-scale excavations. By the end of summer, they hope to know whether they have really found the long-buried ruins of sybaritic Sybaris...