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Once in a great while a scientific book is published that sets bells jangling wildly in a dozen different sciences. Such a book is Cybernetics (John Wiley; $3) by Professor Norbert Wiener of M.I.T. It bristles with difficult mathematics; its text is a curious mixture of charm and opacity. But for those who can penetrate it (and thousands are trying), the book is intensely exciting...
Campbell stayed quiet long enough to stake 30 claims. Another prospector, Norbert Miller of Toronto, saw him staking, guessed what was up. As the word spread along what prospectors call "the moccasin trail," the rush started. In no time 500 claims had been staked around Campbell's. When Campbell's ore samples showed a 60% content of radioactive mineral and 99% of it uranium (10% is considered pay dirt), the boom went skyhigh...
...Norbert Berghoff of Fort Wayne, Ind., the passenger who had spotted him, became the Santa Clara's hero. To the end of his born days, Berghoff would be considered a man with eyes like an eagle...
Erleigh Sorrow. South Africa's breezy Norbert S. Erleigh, whose ?100,000,000 New Union Goldfields empire was recently thrown into receivership (TIME, Nov. 24), was arrested on a charge of theft for borrowing ?352,875 from New Union without the board's permission. He was let out on bail after he promised not to 1) leave the country or 2) dabble in New Union business. He found these conditions infuriating. With two new gold strikes on lots adjoining properties controlled by New Union, it looked as if New Union might get back on its feet without Erleigh...
...undergraduate at Cambridge, Norbert Stephen Erleigh was in a hurry to make a million pounds, then quit. Said Norby Erleigh: "I think it could be done swiftest in South Africa." A wealthy Rand pioneer's son, Erleigh had the financial backing; he soon picked up the mining experience. In 1933, he helped Abraham Sundel Hersov form the Anglo-Transvaal Investment Co., Ltd., and together they made a killing in Rand mines. But "Bob" Hersov was too cautious for bumptious, erratic Norby Erleigh. By 1935 Erleigh, then 32, had broken away from Anglovaal, and he had made his first million...