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Proboscis monkeys (Nasalis larvatus) are seldom seen outside Borneo. San Diego got its pair through G. Wyman Carroll of New Haven, a free-lance animal dealer who spotted a pair in the Surabaya Zoo. At first Surabaya demanded two camels in exchange, then asked for two llamas. Carroll made a counteroffer of two sea lions. Surabaya finally sent the two proboscis monkeys, two Sumatran gibbons, two black langurs and one Celebes phalanger. In return it got two sea lions, two ring-tailed and two spider monkeys, and two U.S. raccoons...
...biggest telescopes do not magnify more than much smaller ones do; their purpose is to gather more light, making dim stars and nebulae bright enough to affect a photographic plate. Much the same result can be accomplished by amplifying dim light instead of gathering more of it. Dr. Albert G. Wilson, director of Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Ariz., believes that a 40-in. telescope equipped with a Lumicon will equal a 240-in. telescope in luminescence. The 200-in. Hale telescope on Palomar Mountain, the world's biggest, can be made to equal a 1,200-incher...
...quick succession the tower was turned down by the state railroads, post office and TV station. When private capital also refused to bite last week, the only remaining buyer in sight seemed to be the department of the Somme. But the Somme's Conseil Général has already put itself on record as waiting "until the government offers us the tower for a symbolic payment of one franc...
...underground. Painters Paul Klee, George Grosz, Josef Albers and Architect Walter Gropius managed to escape; one of the few who chose to remain and survived is Fritz Winter, today rated as Germany's leading abstract-expressionist. To celebrate Winter's 50th birthday, Munich's Günther Franke Gallery is staging a showing of 46 of his paintings, ranging from 1929 to the present. The Munich retrospective, and a current exhibition now on display at Chicago's Fairweather-Hardin Gallery, show that Winter's years underground have left their mark, but they have also given...
Knocks on the Door. The most impressive figures came from Bethlehem Steel. Indestructible Eugene G. Grace reported sales of more than $2 billion, net income of $180 million v. $132 million in 1954; fourth-quarter profits alone totaled $57.5 million, an alltime record. With order books jammed for months ahead, Steelman Grace saw no decline in sight in spending, rather, continued demand. To meet it, Bethlehem Steel is spending $300 million to add 3,000,000 tons a year to capacity. Said Grace: "What little the auto industry has cut back, other [steel] users are knocking on our door...