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...color film for the 60-second camera, which is "coming along nicely" after years in the laboratory. He has a formal, functional president's office in Polaroid's Cambridge headquarters. But he spends most of his time in a dingy laboratory office cluttered with cameras, chemicals and corncob pipes...
Indelible Marks. Not even the U.S. occupation could break down the immutable process of selective absorption. Occupied for the first time in its history, Japan bent, bowed and stretched to the penances of defeat. It grasped eagerly at the authority that floated in behind a corncob pipe on the U.S. Missouri to replace the authority that died with the Tojos. Its outward bitterness in defeat was directed not so much against the triumphal strangers who had used Japanese as the first targets for the Abomb, but at its own returning soldiers. Instead of sympathy, the returning veterans were greeted with...
Since 1945 MacNeish has poked into more than 300 caves. In 1949 he found in one of them a primitive corncob which he sent to Botanist Paul C. Mangelsdorf of Harvard. Dated by radioactive carbon, it proved to be more than 4,000 years old and cleared up several mysteries about the origin of corn. Urged and partially financed by Harvard to find even older corn, MacNeish returned last year to Tamaulipas...
...history: Did Africans make contact with the Western Hemisphere before the time of Columbus? Dr. Jeffreys thinks that they did, and he bases his theory on pottery made about 900 A.D. by the Yoruba tribe of West Africa. Some of it appears to have been decorated by rolling a corncob over wet clay. Since corn almost certainly originated in the Americas, this suggests that Africans, or Arabs sailing from Africa, crossed to the New j World 500 years before Columbus and brought Indian corn back with them...
Yale's Clarence W. Mendell, 69, former dean of the college and for nearly a generation the "grand old Roman" of the faculty. A tweedy little man with a passion for flashy sport coats and corncob pipes, "Clare" Mendell divided his time between poring over Latin sentence connection, digging up lost Tacitus manuscripts, weeding his vegetables, and just being the sort of gentle scholar that many Yale facultymen have tried to imitate...