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...German Hydrographic Institute reported last week that tuna and sardines, considered warm-water fish, are now being caught in the North Sea. Dr. Günther Böhnecke, the institute's chief, suspects that the fish have extended their range northward because the North Sea, like many other parts of the Northern Hemisphere, is slowly growing warmer...
...gradual warming of the arctic climate (TIME, July 26) may eventually make the barren lands flow with milk and honey. But as the warm temperature moves northward, its shift produces unpleasant as well as pleasant effects. Last week Dr. Rene Pomerleau, of the Canadian government's forest pathology laboratory, warned that birch forests are dying all over northern New England and eastern Canada. After a few seasons of unusually high soil temperatures, the trees die back at the tops. Already, said Pomerleau, much timber has been affected. If the dying trees are not harvested soon, fungi will destroy them...
...solemnize China's new status, India's Jawaharlal Nehru went northward to pay his court. As the leader of the world's second biggest nation (350 million), Nehru would call on Mao Tse-tung, the leader of the world's largest (600 million). With Russia, the third largest (210 million), they comprised nearly half of mankind. The significance was not lost on Nehru. His visit was a "world event in a historic sense," said he grandly, "one of the biggest events of the year and of the decade. All other things are trivial...
...Millionaire Houston Oilman R. E. ("Bob") Smith (TIME, May 24), have just signed a $100 million gas sale contract with the Natural Gas Pipeline Co., which will build a 280-mile line from the field to Pampa. There it will connect with the company's pipeline carrying gas northward to Midwest markets...
...same age generally pointed toward the same place, which Dr. Creer believes was the position of the north magnetic pole at the time the rocks were formed. About 700 million years ago, the pole was in Arizona. Then it moved to the Pacific, then to Japan and northward across eastern Siberia to its present position...