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TO cover these and other stories, TIME reporters themselves were moving about in a variety of vehicles ranging from the pedestrian to the exotic. Working on the whooshing-machines story, Munich Correspondent Franz Spelman sedately surveyed an international transport show from an electronically guided monorail that circled the grounds at...
Vicious Problem. Although a British scientist, Sir James Dewar, first liquefied hydrogen in 1898, it remained a mere curiosity until after World War II. Then it was enlisted as a tool in the modern specialty of cryogenics (the science and technology of very low temperatures), which has been instrumental in...
> Kerrville, deep in Texas hill country, 55 miles from San Antonio and 55 miles from L.B.J.'s spread, is the favored watering hole of local millionaires. With evening temperatures 10° cooler than the low lying parts of the state and, more important, a dry climate, Kerrville is highly regarded by...
Dingaka may mark a trend of sorts. Most made-in-Africa melodramas use throbbing tom-toms and tribal dances merely as an exotic backdrop for the doings of great white hunters, drunken missionaries, or dissatisfied colonial wives. In Dingaka, South African Writer-Director Jamie Uys does not stint on music...
An exotic organism living humbly in the soil might starve native plants by turning some vital nutrient, such as nitrogen, into a form they cannot use. If the earth's plants die of starvation, its animals, including man, will die too.