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Nassau's Tigers will gambol on the Stadium turf for the first time since 1942 this afternoon, exploring the ground where they will stalk their Crimson prey tomorrow...
...Gleaners. Prewar, the Soviet zone was always a food-surplus area, which the three Western zones were not. But now Russian-zone Germans are as hungry as those in the West. Near Bitterfeld, townfolk were using their Sunday off to glean the few stray wheat stalks left in the stubble of a wheatfield. They grind the grain by hand and make a sort of bread. Some, unable to wait, were eagerly breaking the stalk heads open and eating as they gleaned. It left a grayish paste of kernel shell around their lips...
Greener Pastures. At the end of the "migrating phase," the slug contracts to a blob, and rises into the air on a long, slender stalk. After this "culmination," the mass breaks up, and about 60% of the cells resume their solitary lives; the rest die. The entire cycle takes about four days. Dr. Bonner believes that the process has some "survival value," perhaps allowing the cells to dodge inimical conditions, or helping them migrate to greener bacterial pastures...
...have studied Dictyostelium discoideum and related Acrasiales.* One slime-mold expert, Dr. K. B. Raper, of the Department of Agriculture, discovered (among other things) that the ultimate fate of the individual amoeba depends on how quickly it joins the aggregation. Latecomers form parts of the disc which supports the stalk; they die at the final breakup. The early birds form parts of the stalk itself; they die too. Only the middle-of-the-roaders, who arrive neither late nor early, live to continue the race...
...Eskimo idea of what it takes to feed a baby on Baffin Island is different from that of a mother in Ontario. Since the Eskimo boy early learns to stalk his meals he needs a rifle, but the Government says no rifles can go to children under ten. Last week the council was faced with a poser: some Eskimos wanted to pool their allowances to buy a boat -to help get food for their children. The council was not sure. It put the question over, to see if the money could not be raised elsewhere...