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...Antarctica be used only for peaceful purposes." The U.S., which has made no territorial claim in Antarctica and does not recognize the frequently overlapping claims of seven other countries (Britain, Australia, Chile, Argentina, France, New Zealand, Norway), proposed that the area be left open to all nations for scientific research "for the benefit of all mankind," and pointed to the discoveries already made during the International Geophysical Year...
Last week Optometrist Newton K. Wesley of Chicago's Eye Research Foundation announced an ingenious solution: a bifocal contact lens with the distant-vision prescription in the center, enclosed by a surrounding area that corrects for closeup reading. Rotation therefore makes no difference. Wesley, who tried the first pair on himself, reports that 65 people who have worn the new lenses for as long as five months are enthusiastic. If they look straight ahead with eyes wide open, they see through the center lens. When they look down, the contact lens rises, so that they see through the outer...
...with a choice selection of objects and paintings ranging from a 3,000 B.C. Sumerian stone figure to Renoir, Cézanne and Picasso, will give Rich professional pride and satisfaction, plus the chance to work more closely with the community. He will be free to do his own research and "some polemic writing," notably on the need to show U.S. art abroad. He will also have three months a year for vacation or travel. Says he contentedly, "it looks like a very attractive vista...
Higgins, who died in 1948, stipulated in his will that his residuary estate be distributed among the four universities to "promote the general advancement of science by investigation, research and experiment." Since the establishment of the Trust, more than $11 million has been given to the universities...
...research work and teaching of several professors will be supported by the Trust allotment. Nobel Prize-winner Edward M. Purcell, professor of Physics, Roy O. Greep, Dean of the School of Dental Medicine, and Konrad E. Bloch, Higgins Professor of Biochemistry, are among those receiving grants...