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Irving Langmuir's ants need not have drowned [TIME, Aug. 28] had they realized the potentialities of jet propulsion. As a boy in western Washington, I used to toss large black ants into our quarry swimming hole. After a few preliminary struggles to orient themselves to the nearest shore, they would squirt a jet of formic acid from a convenient rear port and be shot six or eight inches nearer safety. Not being streamlined (and rudderless), these insects would re-aim and repeat the process until they were able to scramble out. Perhaps our Western ants are just smarter...
...unsinkable aircraft carrier and submarine tender, ideally located" to checkmate the U.S. "Nothing could be more fallacious than the threadbare argument of those who advocate appeasement and defeatism in the Pacific that if we defend Formosa we alienate continental Asia. Those who speak thus do not understand the Orient...
...Dangerous Fallacy. "Nothing could be more fallacious than the threadbare argument by those who advocate appeasement and defeatism in the Pacific that if we defend Formosa we alienate continental Asia. Those who speak thus do not understand the Orient...
...that is only seven of the 31 editorial staffers who are currently contributing to TIME their personal and professional knowledge of the Far East. Included among them is Editor-in-Chief Henry Luce, who has made many trips to the Orient (he was born in Shantung Province) and has always been deeply interested in Asiatic affairs...
...Chicago's Loyola University. A quiet, resourceful woman who specializes in criminal law and domestic relations, she served 18 years as a referee in Chicago's juvenile court, since then has developed a thriving practice on Chicago's South Side. On a tour of the Orient last year, Edith Sampson showed that she was adept at the kind of debate which breaks out in the U.N. Heckled by an Indian about racial conditions in the U.S., she conceded that there were shortcomings, but added: "I would rather be a Negro in America than a citizen...