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...compass they traveled at night, kept on alert all day (about two hours' sleep each), set off live explosive near TVA's Blue Ridge Dam. For food they had one C-ration can, a share in a live chicken. (New problem for the city-bred: how to kill and cook it.) They had learned in earlier problems to live on snake meat in Florida's Everglades, cross open country on a run (about five miles every 40 minutes). Sent to tactical units, the Rangers are under orders to set up five-week courses of similar toughness throughout...
...good thoroughbred. Says he: "I like to travel, but any place in the world becomes boring for me after a few days unless I have a purpose, and thoroughbreds are the answer." Last week, at Louisville's Churchill Downs, Turner's purpose paid off as his English-bred colt, Tomy Lee, won the Kentucky Derby and its $119,650 purse...
...Riddle has been a dog lover from youth. His father, a hearse manufacturer in Ravenna, Ohio, bred bloodhounds; Riddle himself owns a Belgian sheep dog and a Brittany spaniel. Max broke into journalism as turf editor for Scripps-Howard in Cleveland, but horses were not his meat. Invited by the Press in 1939 to write about dogs, Riddle has since expanded into kindred fields. Besides his dog column he writes another devoted to all manner of animals, is an authority on most zoo animals, several kinds of lizards, and the diet of pet snakes (start with raw hamburger and worm...
...atoms all neat round shapes, as shown in the classroom diagrams? Physicist Arthur J. Freeman of the Watertown (Mass.) Arsenal thinks not. Last week, at the American Physical Society meeting at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he presented evidence from recent experiments at Brookhaven National Laboratory, where billions of reactor-bred neutrons were fired at atoms of magnetic iron, nickel and cobalt. According to Dr. Freeman's mathematical analysis, the neutrons bounced off the atoms' electrons in patterns that indicate that the atoms have varying shapes. The nuclei of iron atoms are surrounded by a cloud of electrons...
After importing six of the creatures 18 months ago, Dr. Baldwin has bred thousands of them, which he alternately bombards with X rays and gorges with blood. About 400 roentgens has generally been considered a lethal dose for man (see MEDICINE). But a mature kissing bug, Dr. Baldwin finds, can survive 50,000 roentgens. When he bombarded small spots on young kissing bugs with 2,000,000-volt X rays, he found the cells apparently unaffected. But when the insect ate, setting off the mechanism of cell division and molting, the latent damage appeared. The irradiated spots developed blisters...