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...last January he began sale of his vast land holdings to peasants on easy installment terms, gave the proceeds to charity). But when the oil crisis flared up, though he was opposed to the fanatical National Front, he did not dare take action. He is now powerless before fragile, faint-prone Premier Mohammed Mossadeq and his National Front...
Doctors at Sacred Heart Hospital in Hanford, Calif, could hardly believe their ears: a 24-year-old housewife, eight months pregnant, arrived one morning last week and announced that her unborn baby was crying. The doctors listened. Sure enough, faint wails were coming from the fetus. The phenomenon, which may result when air reaches a baby through prematurely ruptured membranes, is not unknown, but it has rarely occurred so early. Except that the wails made her a little "nervous," the patient was feeling fine, looking forward to a normal delivery in a few weeks...
...much as speleologists do, Amateur Geologist Lépineux rushed to investigate. A small cave led off the pit floor, and a few feet inside the cave mouth a limestone chimney dropped away into darkness. Cautiously, Lépineux heaved a rock into the opening, waited for the faint, faraway sounds of its fall. Then he rushed to report his discovery...
...huge, complex telescopes of modern astronomy have a simple purpose: to concentrate light. Their mirrors (up to 200 inches in diameter) and lenses catch a wide bundle of light rays from faint stars or nebulae and cram them together at a small focus on a sensitized plate. Last week two French astronomers, Andre Lallemand and Maurice Duchesnes, were showing off a new wrinkle in astrophotography. Instead of depending on the original starlight to make the photographic impression, they plan to amplify the light's energy before it reaches the plate...
Next month the new method will be tried astronomically; its inventors hope that it will transform the biggest telescope of the Paris Observatory (24 inches) into the equivalent of a 240-incher, and make it possible to photograph billions of faint stars never detected before...