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Probing the Deeps. Hidden from the sun, the black bottom is an unimaginably terrifying land of ancient mountain ranges and valleys, somnolent volcanoes, Gargantuan canyons, bottomless chasms (see map)-a land filled with hiding places for a future generation of deeper-diving submarines. Knowledge of this topography as well as of the mysterious currents that flow there will decide the future's underwater wars. Though the seas cover 70% of the earth's surface, oceanographers have carefully mapped only about a third of the world's ocean floor. The Russians have gone full steam on oceanography, have...
Rising a majestic 19,565 feet into the clouds from the hot and dry plains of Tanganyika is snow-capped Kilimanjaro -the Mountain of Brightness in Swahili, a Hemingway setting to U.S. readers, the Seat of God to the Chagga tribesmen who live upon its lower slopes. Chagga legend has it that the great god Ruwa liberated mankind by smashing a vessel in which the first humans were imprisoned and scattering them over the mountainside. Actually, the 360,000 people of Chagga-land are a mixture of many tribes who for some five centuries have dwelt among Kilimanjaro...
...blink. In a coal seam 600 ft. under the village, a miner's torch had lighted an ancient white bone. Down in the depths Hurzeler dug farther with trembling care. Last week he ended a nine-year treasure hunt, exhumed the first complete fossil skeleton of an Oreopithecus ("mountain ape"). The age of the coal: 10 million years...
...Hooper Foundation for Medical Research, of which he is director emeritus. There he developed an effective way of keeping parakeets free of the psittacosis virus by frequent injections of chlortetracycline (Aureomycin). But the injection method was costly and impractical for most budgie owners. Backed by Manhattan's Hartz Mountain Products Corp. (bird feeds and medications), Dr. Meyer spent three more years finding an effective way to impregnate the birds' feed with the antibiotic in a uniform and stable concentration. A few months ago, Dr. Meyer put a batch of disease-ridden parakeets on his medicated seed, sent another...
...both tests, parakeets were fed on a schedule of two days on millet seed enriched with Aureomycin, one day on plain feed. After 15 days, virtually all became virus-free. Hartz Mountain will begin marketing the treated feed in September, and parakeet owners can relax at last. Dr. Meyer's next project: a medicated feed for table birds, especially turkeys, which are also subject to ornithosis epidemics (TIME, March...