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Scattered over 1,254,000 sq. mi. of Arctic waste, Canada's 11,000 Eskimos for centuries have spoken a complicated language. The Eskimo can pack whole sentences into a guttural syllable or two, commands 10,000 to 15,000 words-a scholar's quota-just for everyday discourse. He gives some of his verbs hundreds of forms, one for each subtle shade of meaning.* But the Eskimo has never printed the words he speaks. Last week, from the Department of Northern Affairs and Natural Resources in Ottawa came the first serious effort to put the Eskimo...
...islanders are now demanding an ever greater share of the central government's money. They complain that the minimum wages still hang below mainland standards, fret about the population surge that is adding 16,000 people a year to Martinique's current 265,000 (on 385 sq. mi.) and Guadeloupe's 250,000 (on 588 sq. mi.). A potential income source is tourism; the islands offer balmy beaches, inexpensive French champagne and perfume. But most hotels are still of mosquito-net, pre-Hilton vintage...
Because he likes sea birds and dislikes Britain's tax strictures, Author T. H. White (The Once and Future King) lives on low-tax Alderney, a 3-sq.-mi. dot of an island in the English Channel. There he flaps about in baggy fisherman's corduroys, roams the beaches with a red setter named Jenny, and drives about in a mud-clotted, war-surplus Hillman. He gets along well with the islanders, but fumes at the excessive pace (30 m.p.h.) of Al-derney's three cabs. He seldom ventures from the island these days, but during...
...happy chance, it turned out that the neon lamps light up when exposed to radar waves with a power density of only 5 or 6 mw. sq. cm.-about half the permissible dose for man. So they are perfect for the purpose, and last indefinitely, Dr. Johnson and two Navy medical colleagues report in the United States Armed Forces Medical Journal. Photo flashbulbs can also be used for a one-shot warning: they go off when exposed to still smaller doses of microwave radiation...
...Sunday morning at 8 a.m., the Harvard Band will participate in the 21st Communion Breakfast of the Cambridge Police Department. The parada, featuring local dignitaries, will assemble at Porter Sq. and proceed to Rindge Ave. and Our Lady of Pity Church...