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...Western diplomat declared last week in Washington that it was of the utmost importance for observers of the current international situation to study two danger spots in the world--Korea and Germany--side by side. Korea is on the eastern rim of the Communist land mass; Germany on the western. It is inconceivable, he said, that events in the two places are unrelated...
...final test, a magnetometer survey, was hastily completed just before the quick-coming arctic winter was about to close down. The scientists carried a sensitive magnetometer all around the crater, charting the magnetic lines of force. Under the northern rim they found what they were looking for: a "magnetic anomaly" indicating that a large mass of metal-bearing material lies buried far below the surface...
...exact spot where a buried meteorite should be. The northern rim of the crater is higher than the others, so the meteorite probably slanted down from the south, burying itself under the granite slightly to the north of the crater. This evidence, added to the shape of the lake and the "ripples" in the granite around it, convinces Dr. Meen that the crater is meteoric. If it is, it is the largest interplanetary shell hole (more than two miles across) that anyone has yet discovered on the earth's surface...
Viewed from the canyon's high rim, the dam looks too small to create, as it will, a patch of mottled green land nearly as big as Connecticut. But all modern irrigation dams look small when compared with what they do. They accomplish their ends by geographical judo, playing on the weaknesses of their rivers...
...Rim is one of the 400 Korean students who are attending American universities, and one of the 50 who are receiving financial aid from either the Korean government or from our state department. All the men and women are intending to return to their native land to lead the rebuilding movement. While here, though, Mr. Rim finds the hospitality and the spirit of friendship pervading the University very enjoyable. "I am very happy with the people here. The only trouble is that I eat too much ice-cream...