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...Count and Countess* Court Haugwitz-Reventlow decided last week to reconcile themselves to their position as members of the royal family of the press. Instead of forcing reporters to scale fences and bore peepholes for news of the royal ructions (TIME, July 4), they graciously issued a stately circular through their London solicitors, announcing that "all matters in dispute between them have been amicably settled." Items: they will file a deed of separation enabling them to be divorced in 18 months; two-year-old Son Lance will be in the charge of his mother as a child, of his father...
...coarse glacial bed of Manhattan's murky East River, sand hogs for the last year have been boring the two tubes of a midtown vehicular tunnel intended by 1940 to connect Manhattan Island with Long Island. Each 31 feet in diameter, the tubes are bored by great circular "shields." Like the mouth of a great pipe, the shield is forced ahead by hydraulic pressure, cutting two feet eight inches at each thrust into sub-bottom deposit. Between forward thrusts, workmen remove the muck within the shield, line each new section with cylindrical cast-iron casing. Keeping the river...
...opened a mammoth, $500,000 aquarium. Surrounded by palmetto trees and tropical shrubbery, the aquarium, world's largest, consists of two adjacent, open-air, steel and concrete tanks. The larger one is rectangular-100 by 40 ft. and 18 ft. deep; the other, an 11-ft.-deep, circular tank, is 75 ft. in diameter. Along the walls of both tanks are some 200 portholes...
...East-West axis in the Tiergarten will be the North-South axis, which will run for 24 miles from suburban Wedding, past the old Lehrter station and the Reichstag, to the west of the famed Brandenburg Tor, over the Potsdam Bridge, out toward Schöneberg. The four circular boulevards -whose radii from the Tiergarten intersection will be respectively two, four, six and eight miles-will follow streets largely in existence...
Professor John Spinachseed of the Whiskey Straits Paleontological Society has just sent word of a discovery which will revolutionize the world of science more than somewhat. Burled beneath some heavy, coarse-grained Potsdam holystone beds, lie has uncovered a peculiar organ, perfectly preserved. It is a circular piece of fossilized bone with a hole in the middle which resembles a large lifesaver the kind you eat. Although his colleagues have not yet confirmed his suspicion, spinachseed is certain that the fossil is that of the left nostril of a metamorphic ape. He has already named the ape Spinachanthropus in honor...