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Wayward Jets. The West was ready with its own countermeasures. The U.S. Air Force supplied navigational gadgets to help foil the jammers, and airline pilots were going through courses last week to learn their use; already the equipment was being installed by Pan Am on the DC-6Bs it employs on the Berlin run. Plans were being discussed to slap restrictions on planes of Communist airlines on Western routes if trouble comes. And there was another way to combat obstruction of the airlanes: armed fighter escorts to fly alongside the commercial aircraft, ready to defend them with gunfire if necessary...
Basking beside the Mediterranean were a couple of Europe's comeliest blonde princesses. As she modestly took umbrage behind a beach blanket to foil photographers at Sainte-Maxime on the French Riviera, Sweden's bouncy Princess Birgitta, 24, might have thought that her already five-week honeymoon with Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern, 28, would go on forever. After all, just down the coast near Viareggio, Italy, were Belgium's lissome Princess Paolo, 23, and Prince Albert, 27, on the beach with young son Prince Philippe as they celebrated their second anniversary...
...clips together costs 70?. A length of nylon line is handy for lashing bedrolls and tents. Flashlights and spare batteries should be packed, as well as a small kerosene lamp, books, matches in a waterproof case, first-aid kit, candle, knife, hatchet, bucket, small trench shovel, mosquito repellent, aluminum foil, toilet paper, foul-weather clothing, cameras, binoculars, a good topographical map (available at park and forest headquarters), handy nature guides and a Thermos...
...getting increasingly difficult; the newest element was so frail that it decayed almost before anyone recognized that it was around. It was manufactured, explained a lab team (Albert Ghiorso, Torbjorn Sikkeland, Almon E. Larsh and Robert M. Latimer), by coating thin nickel foil with a circular film of artificial californium (element 98) only one-tenth of an inch in diameter. Placed in a container filled with helium gas, this tiny target was bombarded by a beam of boron nuclei from the lab's heavy-ion linear accelerator. Most of the boron bullets missed, but a few scored a bull...
N.Y.U. took first place in all three categories and won the team title with an astounding record of 79 wins out of bouts. Foil man Herb Cohen, in an outstanding display of endurance, ability, and consistency, lost only one bout in the two-day marathon. The top eight teams finished as follows: N.Y.U., Princeton, Columbia, Yale, Wayne State, Navy, Ohio State, and Harvard...