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...United States and gives us a fresh look at ourselves." Air Express brought us a hatful of unexpected headaches. We were victimized from distant places by the foibles of nature and of man. Our Buenos Aires subscribers complained enough to make us realize that a July snow over high Andean peaks can ground TIME-carrying planes. Elsewhere, similar protests led us to the certain knowledge that some postmen liked to "collect" American stamps and magazines. Then there were customs, censorship and currency, all subject to violent and sudden change...
Three officers of the University were this week elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences, it was announced yesterday. They are: John T. Edsall '23, associate professor of Biological Chemistry; Samuel K. Lothrop '15, curator of Andean Archaeology; and Edward M. Purcell, professor of Physics...
...copy nuclear fission." Instead, "contrary to what was done in foreign experiments, Argentine technicians worked on the basis of thermonuclear reactions, which are identical with those whereby the sun releases atomic energy." The successful experiment had been conducted at the government atomic plant on Huemul Island, in the Andean lake of Nahuel Huapi, some 900 miles southwest of Buenos Aires. It required neither uranium nor plutonium. "With the seriousness and veracity which is my custom," Perón assured his people that his cut-rate atomic energy would be used "solely for power plants, smelters and other industrial establishments...
...radiologists who studied No. 49 decided that he was once a soldier, and about 5 ft. 7 in. tall. He suffered a terrible blow from a star-shaped mace that broke his nose and crushed the skull above his right eyebrow. This must have happened during a battle with Andean Indians, for only they used such maces. No. 49 recovered, perhaps with the help of skull surgery, which his people knew something about...
Life on the treeless, 2½-mile-high Andean altiplano is about as bleak and miserable as anywhere in the world. Seeking release from this reality, the impoverished mountain Indians drink so much hard liquor that whole villages are sometimes knocked out for days at a time. The United Nations commission for technical assistance to Bolivia, currently investigating all phases of Bolivian life, has just about decided that drinking is the country's No. 1 social evil, surpassing even the coca-chewing habit...