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...fringes of space and the to bottom of the sea, routing disease and building bigger and better nuclear bombs. 20th centry scientists still find time for smaller, more mundane problems. One of the smallest: Which way does the water spin when it swirls down the bathtub drain...
...ever since man has had bathtubs. backgroud information on the subject has been building ever since the greeks advanced the notion that the earth rotates on its axis. Left to itself, a tub of water should theoretically be influenced by the rotation of the earth and go down a drain in the tub's bottom in the same direction as the earth is spinning-which would look clock wise to an observer hovering in space hovering in space above the Southern Hemisphere, Counterclockwise to an observer in the north. The theory was convincing enough, but so difficult...
...Administration, which has embarked on a crash program to double the Treasury output at the Department's two mints (Philadelphia and Denver). A far richer windfall for the Government, however, is the Coinage Act of 1965, passed by Congress in July to cut the multimillion-ounce yearly drain from the U.S.'s dwindling silver supply.* The law stipulates that all new dimes and quarters must be silverless and the silver content of half dollars trimmed from...
Though gold continues to drain off as foreigners cash in their accumulated dollars, the Government last week reported that the July loss of $80 million was the lowest all year. This interim success has deeply impressed skeptical European bankers, who doubt that their own businessmen would put patriotism over profits. Of course, the Government has such great powers over private business that it would take a brave businessman indeed not to "volunteer" to help. Though Fowler warns that the gains may be only temporary and that further tightening of discipline is necessary, he believes that...
...with deft, dry precision by Actor Michael Caine, who looks a bit like Peter O'Toole with most of the psychological kinks ironed out. Insubordinate and often insufferable, he is assigned to recover a kidnaped British scientist held by criminals who contribute to the nation's "brain drain" by snatching and selling top scientific talent to foreign powers...