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...other nation, West or East, has proved willing to enlarge its Chinese quota. Why did the Chinese Reds allow the refugees to get out, thereby offering the world plain proof of the Communist system's failures in China? The reason, in all likelihood, was that the Peking regime did not want to keep masses of potential troublemakers within its borders -and perhaps maliciously enjoyed Hong Kong's difficulties. The British formally urged Peking to halt the flood. The Reds may or may not have listened to the protest, but at week's end, the stream of refugees...
Bottle & Coil. The magnetometer displayed at Venice was developed by Oxford's Research Laboratory for Archaeology, following U.S.-designed electronic circuits. The working arm of the instrument is a small (about 5 oz.) bottle of plain water, which contains hydrogen and, therefore, protons. Surrounding the bottle is an electrical coil connected to a control box. The magnetometer is usually operated by two people, one of whom moves the bottle from point to point, while the other sits at the control box. To make an observation, the controller presses a button, shooting an electric current from a storage battery through...
Last year archaeologists took a magnetometer to the flat plain of the ancient Crathis. After only ten days of work, they located 800 yds. of a city wall buried under many feet of soil, and test pits turned up pottery fragments from the 6th century B.C., when Sybaris was at its glittering peak. British, U.S. and Italian archaeologists will continue to crisscross the area with detailed magnetometer surveys to guide large-scale excavations. By the end of summer, they hope to know whether they have really found the long-buried ruins of sybaritic Sybaris...
...Kennedy, the Laos crisis of March 1961 was among the first crises of his Administration. He went on national television to declare that a Communist takeover in Laos would "quite obviously affect the security of the U.S." The plain implication of that statement was that the U.S. would not stand for any such takeover. But Kennedy was, in fact, trying some scare tactics that did not work. Within a week, the Administration began to downgrade Laos...
...according to Texas' Attorney General Wilson. "The sad part of it," says a Pecos bank president, "is that he could have been an honest millionaire instead of a broke crook." Billie Sol grew up in an environment of a sort that is supposed to produce not crooks but plain, solid, honest people-the kind often referred to as the salt of the earth. One of six children, he was raised on a prairie farm near Clyde, Texas...