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...Hermann Nickel, who was four years old when Hitler came to power, is 18 now. Last week, he was bound for New York, on his way to little Union College at Schenectady, where he will study political science and learn about U.S. democracy. He will be the U.S.'s first post-Hitler German exchange student. His two sponsors: the Institute for International Education (TIME, Nov. 4) and the Schenectady Rotary Club, which will pay for his room & board...
Though raised under Naziism, young Nickel satisfied the Military Government people that he was no Nazi. Explained Hermann solemnly: "The merit is not my own. I owe my understanding to my parents. If I had had Nazi parents, I would have been a Nazi...
What was iron doing in cold space many million miles away from the nearest star? Struve concluded that both stars, Antares and Companion, must be surrounded by a vast swarm, of meteors, like the iron-nickel meteors which bombard the earth. Apparently they shoot through an enormous region 50,000 times as wide as the diameter of the sun (865,000 miles). They may be attracted mainly by the powerful gravitation of massive Antares. But they show up on Astronomer Struve's spectroscope because intense ultraviolet rays from the hot, blue Companion make them glow with telltale light...
...country was also being visited by a plague of annoying and unannounced nickel, dime and dollar jumps in the price of all kinds of small goods and services. Restaurant prices were developing a habit of rising as much as 10? to 50? overnight. Some radio repairmen were charging more to peer into a receiving set than a physician asked for a sick call. It even cost more to go broke-the fee for filing bankruptcy papers in U.S. district courts went up from...
Jukebox Genius. At a Manhattan coin-machine show, exhibitors proudly demonstrated a mechanical "Information Please," patterned after a Navy wartime training device. For a nickel, the machine propounds five questions on a printed screen from a selection of 8,000, gives the player a choice of answers to each question. The player selects one by punching a button and is graded by the machine...