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...north, 240 air miles away, was Bikini, once one of the least-known and most peaceful of Pacific island groups. In Bikini's 200-sq.-mi. lagoon was an anchorage about five miles in diameter. In a space where the Navy would normally have only 14 ships (or five in a cruising formation at sea), 73 vessels had been jampacked for the test...
...child was the first born in the big D.P. camp in Seoul, Korea, and the parents called it Mi Hua (Little Flower) in honor of UNRRA's tough and kind-hearted boss. But 7,000 miles away, in Washington, Little Flower LaGuardia last week faced more headaches than honors...
Yellowknife, spread out over a rocky peninsula and the hub of a 200-sq.-mi. staking area, has become a throbbing, roistering place of 3.000 people, quick riches, hard living, crudity and fun. Said one amazed visitor: "Just like a movie set, only more so." The restaurants have a frontier ring to their names: Lil's Place, the Wildcat Café, Ruth's Roving Hornet. The one movie house shows three-year-old films. The traditions of the "mushers" of the dog sleds are carried on by the "cat skinners" who drive the caterpillar trains (tractors and sleds...
...Amman, dusty mountain capital of mountainous Trans-Jordan, last week woke out of its normal torpor to its most exciting holiday in a quarter of a century. Stocky (5 ft. 5 in.) Emir Abdullah was home from London with a British treaty recognizing Trans-Jordan (area 30,000 sq. mi.; pop. about 300,000) as a sovereign and independent state...
Nearest goal for spaceships is the boundary where the earth's gravitational pull and the moon's are equally strong. This "neutral point" comes closest to the earth (160,000 mi.) when the moon's rather feeble attraction is reinforced by that of the sun directly behind it. So a space-voyage to the moon should be made when the moon is "new" and almost in line with the sun. Voyages to Venus, Mars and other planets have been plotted by similar calculations. They would take more time, not much more energy...