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...expected, the lunar rock showed no indication of any life or concentrations of organic compounds. "This is the cleanest stuff you can find anywhere," commented the University of Bristol's Geoffrey Eglinton, one of 79 foreign participants at the conference. Nor did anyone find any trace of water-past or present; this prompted one scientist to comment that the moon was a million times as dry as the Gobi Desert...
...tedious life on her husband's sheep ranch in New Zealand's Eglinton Valley gave Mrs. Ruth Chartres a wistful eye for the peaks that towered into the clear air high above her home. She set her heart on mastering Mount Cook, New Zealand's tallest (12,349 ft.). Called Aorangi (Cloud Piercer) by the Maoris, Cook is a tough enough test for a professional mountaineer. Sir Edmund Hillary, co-conqueror of Everest, practiced there; many lost their lives in the attempt...
After attending a service at the posh, progressive Eglinton Avenue United Church, a United Church minister in Toronto was invited to stay for the young people's meeting. When he went upstairs, he found the young people (with perhaps 100 adults present) bellowing a song, to the strains of I'm Nobody's Sweetheart...
...MEMOIR OF AE-John Eglinton-Macmillan ($3.50). Simple, direct, sometimes moving, biographical essay on the late George William Russell, whose career as a distinguished Irish poet ran parallel to his less happy life as an ardent, unpractical, outspoken politician...
...Class A, a first prize of $1000 was awarded to A. H. Leake, of Eglinton, Canada, Inspector of Technical Education for Ontario, for a paper entitled "Industrial Education, its Problems, Methods and Dangers." A second prize of $500 was awarded to H. E. Smith, Instructor in Economics at Cornell, for a paper on "The United States Federal Internal Tax History from...