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...like a flower opening up-slowly at first, and then it finally spreads out." A small independent, Kerr-McGee spent 20 years pulling itself up to a $15 million annual business. Then, in the past five years, it trebled in size. Last week, Kerr-McGee spread itself still wider. It put together a combine with uranium ore reserves estimated at some 5,000,000 tons on the Colorado Plateau (total U.S. reserves: 30 million tons), worth some $200 million. If Kermac builds a $20 million processing mill next year, it may well become the second biggest (next to Anaconda...
East Europe. Communist Rumania flagged Washington that it accepts in principle the Eisenhower plan for a wider "people-to-people" exchange with Soviet bloc countries and the mutual establishment of information (books, periodicals) centers. Noted with interest by State: Rumania accepted, even though Moscow's Pravda has charged that the information-center plan is part of a U.S. effort to carry out espionage...
...opening too small to let a female deliver its young. But millions of pocket-gopher squeals testify that the female can deliver. In 1925 Dr. Hisaw discovered how: during pregnancy the female pocket gopher secretes a hormone that causes part of the pubic bones to dissolve, leaving a wider opening. Hisaw named the hormone "relaxin" (TIME, April...
...Seminar. The participants are selected by means of applications and personal interviews, and with the help of international selection boards. Most of them do not have sufficient time or opportunity to visit the States for a longer period of time, but are vitally interested in gaining a wider perspective through contacts with colleagues from Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and America...
...withdrawal of restrictive statutes and regulations, the cloak of due process under which the attackers of academic freedom operate. The best way to achieve this would seem to be for liberals to develop and state clearly the meanings and implications of "academic freedom," in the hope that a wider understanding will develop, capable of withstanding any resurgence of these malignant attacks and attackers...