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...Ireland 12. Average number of voters in British constituencies: 60,000 (in U.S. congressional districts: 200,000). In the U.S., Representatives must be at least 25, Senators 30. Any British subject over 21, except judges, government officials and clergy, may stand for election if he can put up a deposit of ?150 ($420). This deposit is returned if the candidate polls more than one-eighth of the total vote cast; all ten Communist candidates lost theirs last week...
Last week Molybdenum Corp. of America, which specializes in producing alloys used for hardening steel, had some big news about the rare-earth metals. A deposit discovered a year ago by the company near the Nevada-California line, said President Marx Hirsch, "is a major metal discovery." He estimated that there are 14 of the 15 rare metals in the ⅓ sq. mi. deposit...
...basis of Hirsch's announcement, Moly Corp. stock, which has scooted from 7½ to 64½ in two years, scooted up another 15¼ points to 79¼. If the deposit lives up to Hirsch's hopes, the U.S. will no longer have to rely on imports of the earth's once forgotten elements...
...began pushing out leaves last spring, no one was more surprised than Dr. George W. Harding of the National Capital Parks in Washington. The young plants looked perfectly normal. But the seeds, collected by a Japanese scientist named Ichiro Ohga, had been picked out of a Manchurian peat deposit and were claimed to be 50,000 years old. Most botanists were skeptical. The lotus seeds keep their vitality for a long time, they said, but 150 or 200 years is about the limit...
Collector's Item Ralph Kennedy, 69, a New York salesman, hoards his golf score cards the way other men collect stamps. Stacked in his safe-deposit box are cards from 2,999 courses that he has played. Last week, playing badly ("My score was high"), but pleased as punch, nonetheless, Kennedy brought his total to 3,000 and got a gem of a collector's item: the score card of the Old Course at St. Andrews, Scotland (see above). Kennedy figures that "3,000 different courses is a world record. I don't think it will ever...