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Ospreys normally return to the same mating place year after year. Would these return? As bird lovers waited, the first report came on April 18: the male was back; three days later, the female followed. The ornithologists were ready. In a campaign that rivals the efforts to protect North America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bird Lovers' Victory | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

Tremblers & Traps. To stay ahead of the game, Britain's bomb men must call on a vast knowledge of chemistry, a store of cold nerve, and a touch as delicate as a Piccadilly pickpocket's. Hartley's first step is to chart the bomb's precise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Bomb Tamer | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

The Germans were also very nasty about anti-handling booby traps. One type of fuse was supersensitized after the bomb hit the ground, with a switch so delicate that it could operate if the bomb shell was tapped with a pencil. Hartley's men learned to outwit some mechanisms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Bomb Tamer | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

From that vantage point the President casually walked through thunder, lightning and political booby traps, as he answered a barrage of miscellaneous questions. Items:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: For Second-Termers | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

Product of Apostasy. Few of the Soviet world's captive minds have been as alone as Milovan Djilas'. Once a Tito favorite and Vice President of Yugoslavia, Djilas eventually convinced himself that Communism is the inevitable foe of revolutionary ideals. This disenchantment produced The New Class (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: I Grieve, Therefore I Am | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

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