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...canal, his men have put 28,949 ships through without a single serious accident. One day last March an alltime record of 84 ships passed through the canal. By all signs, this month will set another record. Last August the U.S. aircraft carrier Essex, with a deck half again wider than that of any ship transiting the canal before, showed up at Port Said on an emergency dash to reinforce the Seventh Fleet off Formosa. The Egyptians eagerly built a special platform on the deck, and from this vantage their senior pilot, a Greek with 30 years' experience, conned...
...multicelled organisms in both animal and vegetable kingdoms, is foredoomed to aging changes and ultimate death. But the rate and nature of these changes are far from constant. There are wide variations even among animals of a single species in a state of nature, and naturally they are vastly wider among human beings, living under infinitely more varied conditions, not only social but physical, economic, nutritional and medical. In this fact lies one of the gerontolo- gists' chief hopes: to discover why some men are biologically old at 60, while others like Stagg are still young...
...lacrosse team itself says grimly that it will play a full schedule of matches this spring. But where the money will come from--and how some of the wider issues at stake will be resolved--is still anybody's guess...
...another important trend, Sorokin noted a "shift in the creative leadership of mankind" from its traditional seat in Europe to a wider area, including the Americas, Asia, and Euro-Asian countries, notably Russia...
...fortnight, is the most completely restyled car in the low-priced three. The Impala features big, out-flaring rear fins, a rear window that sweeps around for a panoramic view and a front window that sweeps into the roof. The Chevy is 1 in. longer and 3½ in. wider than the '58, much roomier inside. Another noticeable change: Price. Dumped is the lowest-priced series, the Delray, because it brought in only about 13% of '58 sales; Chevy increased prices of other models as much as $139. Thus, the cheapest Chevy will...