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...must rip aside the iron curtain of the Soongs and Kungs," he railed. He lashed at T.V. from every point of the pamphleteer's compass, denouncing not only his policies but his personality: "Haughty and taciturn. ... As for his knowledge of Chinese culture, even after chemists analyzed it down to the smallest fraction, one can hardly find any trace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Week of the Winds | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

...Canada's barren backlots is a small area where the compass needle, properly suspended, points directly downward. This phenomenon does not usually terrify observers: they know that they are standing on the north magnetic pole, the umbilicus of the earth's magnetic field. When the magnetic pole changes its location, as it does, the needles of all the world's compasses shift a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Watcher of the Pole | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

Every year Arctic Canada becomes more important as a potential route for airplanes, which have to fall back on compass navigation when radio and ground contact fails them. Next season, Madill has orders to chart the position of the pole even more exactly. He may get help from the U.S. Army, which has more than a weather eye on its "Northern Frontier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Watcher of the Pole | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

...South Bend, Mantz began to let down for his approach to the field at Cleveland. His nose (and a compass he hadn't bothered to have accurately calibrated) brought him in over the finish line first. His speed: 435.6 m.p.h., which was 153 m.p.h. faster than Frank Fuller's 1939 record, the last time the race was held. In second place: Old Hand Jacqueline Cochran Odlurn, Bendix champ in 1938, also flying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Old Hands | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

Senator Claghorn, the unreconstructed Southerner who refuses to use a compass because it points north, can now take his constitutional in the deepest woods. General Electric has a new compass which points east and west. The needle is made of silmanal-a new alloy of silver, manganese and aluminum-which can be magnetized across its width instead of lengthwise, as standard compass needles must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Claghorn Compass | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

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