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...Chomping away at his customary cigar. Texaco Inc.'s soft-spoken Chairman Augustus C. Long, 57. prepared to swap $200 million worth of Texaco shares for the TXL Oil Corp.. a crude oil producer with mineral rights on nearly 2.000,000 acres in oil-rich west Texas...
...Astaurov figures that his techniques will soon be advanced enough to try on sturgeons. He plans to start with crude caviar-unfertilized eggs that have been stripped from the female fish. If he succeeds in forcing the eggs to produce females only, the fish that graduate from scientific hatcheries will gradually dominate the sturgeon population. The only males left to swim with the caviar-rich females will be the product of old-fashioned natural spawning in waters unsupervised by the state...
...least trying to reassert "the original and timeless philosophical claims of liberal education." But much less hopeful is the appended "comment" by Robert M. Hutchins, former president of the University of Chicago and now head of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. As an example of "crude pressure and bribery," Hutchins cites Michigan State's "four-year course leading to a Bachelor of Science degree with a major in mobile homes." Says Hutchins: "As Mobile Homes come in. Civilization goes...
...explosion of the Indonesian volcano Krakatoa sent out air waves that registered easily on the crude barographs of the period. Big as the Soviet bomb was, its waves were far weaker than the volcano's, but the time they took to circle the earth was almost exactly the same: 36 hr. 27 min. Small variations in their speed were due to varying winds and temperatures. Carpenter is now putting the Soviet bomb test to unexpected and peaceful use: he is asking the world's scientists to send him copies of their barograph records so that he can study...
...that pictures in a child's book should be doodled childishly. Arthur, the Dolphin Who Didn't See Venice, by John Malcolm Brinnin, illustrated by Andre François (Atlantic-Little, Brown; $2.95), is a cautionary example. Venice, the most beautiful city in the world, is a crude sand castle, and the dolphin, the most beautiful of marine animals, is a mudfish. The people who conspire in this sort of thing are doubtless dutifully-minded toward the young, and can claim that no great harm is done-the child will not remember such books. But why protect...