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...meal in the evening the veilleur de nuit drops in for his bit of cheer.... He is a nobody. He carries a lantern and a bunch of keys. He makes the rounds through the night, stiff as an automaton... In the scheme of things he's not worth the brine to pickle a herring. He's just a piece of live manure and he knows it. When he looks around after his drink and smiles at us, the world seems to be falling to pieces. It's a smile thrown across an abyss. The whole stinking civilization lies like quagmire...
Elaborate Precautions. Dr. Dombrowski got interested in ancient life when he noted that the warm, allegedly curative brine that comes to the surface near his laboratory at Bad Nauheim was full of living bacteria. They could not originate in the soil, he decided, because they are present in the water when it is still 600 ft. below the surface. Besides, they were a type whose modern representatives live in the sea. And along with the bacteria, the brine carried fossil pollen from trees that grew in the Permian...
Geologists know that the Bad Nauheim brine gets its salt from the thick Kali and Zechstein deposits 40 miles away, so Dombrowski next looked for bacteria in the salt itself. Guarding carefully against contamination by modern bacteria, he dissolved samples of Zechstein salt in sterilized nutrient broth. After a few days, he examined the broth, found it to be teeming with lively bacteria...
...Music Researcher Ruth Brine checked around among musicians, scouted which pianists sold the most records, found out which musicians enjoyed most professional respect. The big names, of course, came instantly to mind; the question was where, among so many artists of stature, to limit the list. In the end, Murphy decided that there were four who stood out clearly above the others. His four choices will be found in this week's Music section. Readers may quarrel with his favorites or complain of omissions, but Murphy (his memory refreshed by hearing them again on records) is prepared to stand...
Drilling for Brine. Irrigation carries its own problems: nonsalty river water leaches out salts as it seeps through the soil, and much of it returns to streams, threatening their potability. In parts of Oklahoma and Texas, well drillers often get only a disappointing brine. Galveston's city supply is so loaded-351 p.p.m.-that newcomers say, "It's like drinking out of the bay." Private wells are the most variable. Federal geologists have found some in Kentucky with 31,100 p.p.m. and in Michigan with 66,700. Ocean water contains only 10,700 p.p.m...