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Tummy Ache. In Antwerp, when Aïda. he zoo's biggest elephant, died of intestinal trouble, an autopsy revealed that her stomach contained 1,706 peanuts, 198 cheese, ham, and other kinds of sandwiches, 1,330 pieces of candy, seven ice-cream cones, 811 biscuits, 17 apples, 198 pieces of orange. 891 lumps of bread, one small sausage, 13 wads of paper, three bags, one white glove, one shoestring, for a total undigested weight...
...Hero & Ham. When D'Annunzio was born, nearly 100 years ago. Italy was looking for a hero to match its heroic past. The second oldest civilization in Europe, it was also the youngest nation-state, and Mazzini was its architect...
...forthright Artist Thomas Hart Benton, 70, broke off from mural painting in the nearby library of his old friend, Harry Truman, to lower a heavy easel on Russian art. Said he: "They have no use whatever for all this individualism, abstract impressionism, and what Harry-President Truman-calls 'ham-and-egg art . . .' The only good art they ever had was the art the church took out of Byzantine Greece into Russia-the making of those icons. Their realistic art is the worst kind of art borrowed out of the worst period of European art-the salons...
...paper by Professor John D. Kraus of Ohio State University. Dr. Kraus reported that a satellite speeding through the outer fringe of the atmosphere trails an ionized wake that can reflect certain kinds of radio waves. Teaming up with his friend Perry Klein, another teen-age New York ham, "Ray" Soifer wrote the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge for detailed schedules of satellite orbits. Whenever a satellite, U.S. or Russian, passed at a reasonable distance, the boys tried to bounce radio waves off its wake...
Last summer Perry Klein's father moved the family to Bethesda, Md. During the fall months, Ray Soifer was kept busy by his studies at M.I.T., had time for his ham equipment only on occasional weekends back home in Manhattan. But late in January Ray came home for a week's vacation. On Feb. 6, two satellites, Explorer VII and Sputnik III, were scheduled to come into range about 1 a.m. He got in touch with Perry, and the two boys tried again. At 12:55 a.m., Soifer transmitted a prearranged code with about 300 watts of power...