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...make the Council susceptible, in a way in which other organizations are not, to influence from groups with special interests, who might want to see certain things done or prevented within the College. Should the Council be forced to seek outside support, they should be careful to avoid any sort of external influence...
...Office of Naval Research and the National Science Foundation are the principal sponsors of this sort of space research. For weeks two Navy scientists have been standing by in South Dakota, waiting for a break in the weather to soar aloft in a "Strato-lab" balloon carrying a 16-in. Schmidt telescope. Target of the flight will be Mars, now unusually close to the earth. When Mars is photographed by surface telescopes, the fine detail on its surface is blurred by turbulence in the atmosphere. There should be little or no turbulence above the 16-mile (80,000-ft.) level...
...drive power plants. New Zealand's steam needs less treatment to free it of foreign matter and seems to be far more plentiful. Though authorities at first hesitated to schedule expensive powerhouses in the geothermal region for fear that the steam wells might peter out, nothing of the sort has happened; after eight years the oldest of the steam wells is screaming as loud as ever...
...five-to ten-year-old girls of noble families to Vraona to substitute for the murdered bear. No one seems to know whether these noble nymphets took part in the orgies mentioned by Aristophanes. Dr. Papadimitriou doubts it. They appear to have been housed, and perhaps chaperoned, in a sort of dormitory. In Diana's stoa. he found the stone bases of beds that he thinks were the very ones used by Diana's "bears...
...wore shirts made of the wrong kind of hair and were too proud to scratch. The trouble begins when beautiful Milly Purdoe starts the hanky-panky with the diplomatic bag and makes a baggage of herself with her husband's friends. Unfortunately, the natives are better at this sort of thing, and Milly only proves that Britons never should be Slavs...