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...Israelis still cannot speak, read or write Hebrew, and it will be a long time before a lad from Morocco living in the arid emptiness of the rocky Hebron foothills wins the same opportunity as the boy from Rehavia, Jerusalem's swank suburb. Last week, calling again on the army to help deal with the social problems of consolidating the new state, Ben-Gurion urged that the conscription period be increased by one year to 3½, the last year to be spent establishing new agricultural settlements in the Negev...
...mysteries of arctic life is how fish manage to survive in water so cold that their blood ought to freeze solid. In Hebron Fjord in Northern Labrador, the water at the bottom, 60 fathoms down, stays at - 1.0°C. (28.94° F.) winter and summer. There are plenty fish in it, leading active lives, but when their blood is extracted and chilled, it freezes at -.8° to -1.0° C., nearly a full degree above the temperature in which they live normally...
Last week an expedition led by Dr. Per F. Scholander of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution landed at Boothbay Harbor, Maine after spending eleven weeks around Hebron Fjord trying to find out what keeps the fish from freezing. Dr Scholander had a theory that their blood "supercooled," remaining liquid because ice crystals never get a chance to start forming in it. Ordinary water behaves in the same way if it is carefully chilled without stirring. The blood of the fish of course, is in constant motion through their hearts and vessels, so Dr. Scholander reasoned that the fish must have...
Yardling skiers ended their season Saturday, finishing last in a four team field at Vermont Academy and suffering two player casualties. Vermont Academy won the meet ahead of Mount Hebron and Dublin...
Quick Action. Lawyer Poliakoff, a suave and brisk young man, stopped the first five citizens he met and asked each two questions: "Where is Mt. Hebron Cemetery?" "Who is General Morgan?" All knew the answer to the first question; none could answer the second. This, said Poliakoff, was proof that Winchester was not giving General Morgan his proper due. "In Spartanburg County," he said, "you can ask any school child who General Morgan is, and he'll tell you his whole story. Infancy to adulthood, we study him. Sir, he's our hero...