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Zoologist Harald Esch of the University of Munich stumbled on the information while performing an elaborate experiment on bee dances. Prompted by curiosity, he poked a small microphone into the hive while a scout was making her dancing report. "I got the surprise of my life," he says. "Blasting out of the earphones came a loud 'thththrrrr.' followed by a short 'beep.' Then some of the worker bees flew out of the hive. I knew I had hit on something entirely...
Stirring Up the Workers. A little more observation showed that the whirring sounds were made by the scout bee just as she went into a tail-wagging dance, but two years of work were needed to translate the meaning of the new code of sound. Dr. Esch finally decided that the length of the sounds reported the distance to the nectar supply. The pitch of the sounds and the intervals between them told its quality and quantity. Made with slight nonflying movements of wings, the sounds seemed to stimulate the watching workers to fly toward the new-found food...
...with a Sherpa guide named Nwang Gombu,* who planted a U.S. flag at the summit of Mount Everest on May 1. The Best in a Person. Manager of a Seattle store that sells mountaineering equipment, towering (6 ft. 5 in., 210 Ibs.) Jim Whittaker started climbing as a Boy Scout in the early 1940s. By the time he and his twin brother Lou were in high school, they were expert enough to join Seattle's Mountain Rescue Council. The twins spent college summers guiding footsore tourists up the steep slopes of 14,408-ft. Mount Rainier; in all, they...
Formula for Success. In the growing competition for executive talent, large companies are trying to recover the nimbleness of the small company. Standard Oil of California has set up a department to scout out promising young executives who might otherwise get lost in the company, shifting them among departments to show them fresh challenges and hints of better things to come. General Electric, a company that has broken itself into smaller divisions, sends promising younger executives back to college for advanced degrees. These steps should in time help smaller companies, too. since some of their best executives were first trained...
...public service. As it happened, Peace Corps Boss Sargent Shriver was searching for a new man in Nigeria to replace Samuel Proctor, 41, the able Negro ex-college president who is being promoted to command of all Peace Corps training. U.S. Commissioner of Education Francis Keppel, the best talent scout in the education business, suggested Saltonstall, and Shriver happily landed his man. Saltonstall's decision was "something way down in your gut that says 'yes,' " he explains. "I'm not a 'save-the-worlder,' but I deeply believe in the Peace Corps approach...