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...Geologist Egon T. Degens of Caltech has all but destroyed this romantic notion. Taking samples from the interiors of two porous nonmetallic meteorites -the sort that are supposed to contain traces of "exo-life"-he ground the material and boiled it, first in water, then in alcohol, then for ten hours in dilute sulphuric acid. After that, he simmered his sample for 22 hours in hydrochloric acid. The well cooked extract contained a rich assortment of chemicals characteristic of living organisms, including amino acids and simple sugars...
...artifact appears, its position is measured. The object is then removed by hand--or, in the case of a fragile item, with a dental extractor--and tossed into a basket with three compartments: for bones, for flint, and for river stones and pebbles. The stones go to a geologist, the bones to a paleontologist, and the flint to an archaeologist. The pale botanist takes a sample of dirt from eastrata, which he centrifuges to recover the pollen grains of plants which grad around the rock shelter thousands years...
Alan V. Jopling, a research geologist with the U. S. Geological Survey, has joined the Faculty as assistant professor of Geology...
...even Allah has been there,'' Bedouin shepherds warned Arabian American Oil Co. Geologist Thomas C. Barger when he began to explore the waterless wastes of Saudi Arabia's Rub Al Khali in 1938. But for four years Tom Barger tramped for oil and mapped Rub Al Khali's shifting sands in 130° heat, making lifelong friends of sheiks and shepherds, princes and kings. Mastering Arabic, he began to handle Aramco's negotiations with King Ibn Saud's government, was named an Aramco vice president in 1958, president in 1959. Last week in Dhahran...
...Construction projects that halted two years ago will get going again, though the budget is to remain in balance. Talal and Tariki are busy on a $45 million-a-year program, drawn up by the World Bank, of small basic-development projects. Says Tariki, a University of Texas-trained geologist: "We need water, roads, education and, if possible, diversification of our economy. We have a planning board now, and things move much faster." Talal and Tariki talk about a petrochemical industry to make use of the 200 million cubic feet of gas that go to waste daily in the oilfields...