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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...computations, made shortly after the launching, showed that Discoverer II was orbiting faster than anticipated: 90.5 minutes for the round trip instead of 94 minutes. Quickly, scientists pinpointed the spot where the automatic ejection would occur: the area of Norway's Spitzbergen archipelago, far beyond the Arctic Circle -some 700 miles from the North Pole. Finding the capsule in Spitzbergen's icy wastes would be hard enough. Tougher still was another problem: under agreement with Soviet Russia, which operates coal mines in Spitzbergen, Norway permits no military operations in the area, keeps the archipelago strictly, delicately neutral...
...hydrogen-carbon compounds of the polycyclic group (i.e., with several carbon rings in the molecule). Nine have been exonerated, but to the six already known to produce cancer on the backs of mice the Wynder-Hoffmann team has added two more-3.4-benzfluoranthene and 10.11-benzfluoranthene. But these chemicals occur only in minute quantities in cigarette...
...drinks well, and is planning a trip around the world that will include the Far Eastern settings (Burma, Thailand, Japan) of some of his best-known stories. And though this is absolutely his last book, he is still writing. "I am still amusing myself putting down different things that occur to me. But anything so written will be published only after my death." To those who have been listening to the Maugham swan song over a decade, it can only mean that he is working on another "absolutely last" book...
...slight modification of Bruner's proposal, Von Stade suggested a linking of the Advanced Placement Program with the seminar program. Freshmen should have several opportunities throughout the year to enter the seminar program, he said, and one of these opportunities should occur at the beginning of the year. He recommended that Freshmen be chosen for immediate entrance on the basis of Advanced Placement Examinations and that others "filter in" as evidence of their capabilities is shown...
Besides the transfer of parliamentary leadership and a possible functional change in the role of the Presidency, a general political limbering may occur. Since 1949 "the Old Man" has dominated the German scene, and has ruled with moderation and rigidity. He has been a staunch internationalist and has stressed the need for a firm Franco-German reconciliation. For better or worse this policy has borne fruit; France and Germany, linked institutionally in the Common Market, maintain also a tight policy alliance within NATO, and today appear as the chief exponents of rigidity vis-a-vis Anglo-American "flexibility...