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...company has grown, its business approach has remained scientifically nonchalant. Chairman Edgerton continues to hold business conferences at lunch in the M.I.T. cafeteria, and avoids board meetings whenever he can. Weekends, he uses his own underwater sonic pinger for a scientist's hobby: probing Boston's Charles River for an 800-year-old Viking ship that he believes may lie on the bottom...
Trick Dredge. The problem was solved by Woods Hole's Andrew Nalwalk, who designed a special dredge that would flip itself free if it got snagged on a boulder. Three hundred feet up its cable it carried a "pinger," whose sound could be detected by the Chain four miles above. The interval between the pinger's sound and its reflection from the bottom told the scientists when the dredge was on the bottom and moving with its cable at a proper angle. This eliminated "kiting" (sailing above the bottom) and snarl-ups caused by letting out too much...
...Chinese people, said Bishop Ting, have come to regard Communist rule as "an act of God and a demonstration of His love." Last week brought further evidence of just how "free" Christianity is in Red China. After keeping him prisoner for five years, the Communists released Henry Ambrose Pinger, Roman Catholic Bishop of Chow-tsun and a Franciscan missionary in China for 30 years. He was the last American Roman Catholic bishop to be released from prison by the Reds. In Hong Kong, Nebraska-born Bishop Pinger, 59, told reporters about his experiences...
...which he was never allowed to sit down. He was moved 15 times in those four years, from prison to prison and cell to bedless cell, with from six to 13 cell mates. During the first year there were only two meals a day of bread and vegetables. Bishop Pinger's Bible and rosary were confiscated. "There is freedom of religion in the new China," his warders told him, "but not for prisoners." They lectured him severely whenever they caught him praying: "I soon learned to pray without showing any outward signs...
Before his release, ailing Bishop Pinger got a 25-day "cultural tour" of Red China, but he remained unimpressed. As for the clerics who have made their peace with the regime, he is sure they are insincere or misled: "I am fully convinced that the Chinese Communists aim for the ultimate and total destruction of the Church...