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...approximation of the right position before stepping on a scale. Then they take the U.S. population in units of "square degrees," the areas enclosed by consecutive parallels and meridians. In most square degrees they assume that the population center is at the geographical center. (For square degrees that contain large towns they make special calculations.) Then they multiply the population of each square degree by the distance north or south of the tentative center. If those to the south of it "outweigh" those to the north, they move the center until they get a balance; same operation for east & west...
Second Best. On its face the official statement scarcely bore out St. Laurent's enthusiasm. Still missing was the formal presidential agreement which Canada needs before she can alter the levels of U.S.-Canadian boundary waters. But the communique did contain one meaningful commitment: "The President would support the Canadian action as second best if an early commencement of the joint development does not prove possible...
...zoologist from London's Natural History Museum. With scientific objectivity, he knocked down all the theories: that the monster might be a seal, a giant eel, or anything else known to science. But he did not say categorically that the monster cannot exist. The earth, he admitted, may contain many things undreamed of by zoologists...
...white-haired man could barely contain himself yesterday afternoon. "Boy oh boy, those follows showed real sisu, boy oh boy." And that was about all he could...
...Jewish family, and died (in 1943) a passionate Christian mystic (TIME, Jan. 15). She was deeply influenced by Roman Catholicism, but could never bring herself to become a Catholic, or even to be baptized. She wrote hardly a line for publication, but her diaries, letters and a few essays contain a vivid and challenging sense of the presence...