Word: findings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about $2,000) to the good. He blithely took the money, and then the fun began. Already aware that he could not just fly out of the U.S.S.R. with a wad of Soviet currency, Author Caldwell set out valiantly to spend his capitalist-size bankroll there. But he could find almost nothing exportable to buy. In the end, Caldwell returned some 19,500 rubles to the publisher for safekeeping, ignored blandishments to hang around and live like a millionaire (a Black Sea villa, etc.) until his royalties...
...perishable. Yet the Opies found little girls skipping to "Little fatty doctor, how's your wife?/ Very well, thank you, she's all right," a chant that goes back at least 130 years. Measured in school time, it has had more than 20 generations of wear. Children find it as fresh as ever...
...direct charge of the project is Harvard-trained Astronomer Frank Drake, 29. His assumption is that if other civilizations do exist, some must be more advanced than the one on Earth. "We would expect," says Drake, "to find scattered throughout our galaxy, planets from which radio transmissions more powerful than ours are radiated...
...Since the object of those who operate the source is to find a newly evolved society, we may presume that the channel used will be one that places a minimum burden of frequency and angular discrimination on the detector . . . The wide radio band from, say 1 mc to 10,000 mc, remains as the rational choice. For indisputable identification as artificial, one signal might contain, for example, a sequence of small prime numbers of pulses, or simple arithmetical sums...
...Woman's Club set up an Art Exhibition Committee to improve the quality of art shown at the Arizona State Fair. Even as late as 1940, Art Patroness Maie Bartlett Heard gave the city nearly a full city block for a civic center, only to find Phoenix citizens willing to contribute less than a third of the $1,000,000 required for the buildings...