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...need to go to far-off Saudi Arabia to find Geigers chasing oil pipeline "pigs" [TIME, Nov. 20]. Interprovincial Pipe Line Co. have had the same done for them on the 500-mile stretch of their new pipeline from Regina, Sask. to the U.S. border, but with the following difference: a radioactive source several hundred times "hotter" was used, for the pipe was three to eight feet underground. My turban had earflaps, for the temperature sometimes dipped to ten below zero...
Back in the late '20s a discovery was made by California's Edwin Hubble and others (TIME, Feb. 9, 1948) that threw cosmology into a confusion from which it has not yet recovered. Hubble showed that the galaxies in far-off space, judged by spectroscopic analysis of their light, are rushing away from the solar system at speeds directly proportionate to their distances. The farther away they are, the faster they are moving. At an easily calculated-distance (about 2 billion light-years), the galaxies must be receding at the speed of light itself. No matter...
Beacon Lights. Two hours before midnight on Oct. 11, Columbus saw from the poop of his Santa Maria a far-off light waxing & waning in the dark. Searching for an explanation, Berrill points out that the light could not have come from San Salvador. That island was too far off (about 50 miles) when Columbus sang out. Nor could it have come from a native canoe. Berrill thinks it came from a colony of 1-2 in. sea worms which live among the rocky reefs of the Bahamas and shed their eggs near the sea's surface with...
...mountain-climber, scientist, philosopher. He had been such an indefatigable participant in his time's great events that the world came to think of him as one of its great men. More honored abroad than at home, for more than 40 years he made the voice of his far-off country heard in the world...
...Black Rose (20th Century-Fox] shows how Tyrone Power brought the magnetic compass, the art of papermaking and the secret of gunpowder from far-off Cathay to 13th Century England. Based on Thomas B. Costain's lush historical novel, the film bristles with research, Technicolor, 5,600 extras (not counting 500 horses and 1,000 camels), the English countryside and sun-scorched vistas of Asian deserts. On this broad canvas, however, Scripter Talbot Jennings traces a curiously skimpy design...