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...partial payment from all of the students and additional payment by some. It would make it possible for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to pay for the H.A.A. without showing a deficit. It would enable all undergraduates to use the athletic plant without additional charge. Many who now steer clear of the superb facilities because of the expense involved would use them. Athletics for all would become a reality...
Scientists know that certain arthropods, including horseshoe crabs and bees (TIME, Jan. 1), can steer by the sun even when they cannot see it. All they need is a patch of blue sky. The light that comes from it is partially polarized,* and the direction in which the light vibrates shows the position of the sun. So the bees and crabs, whose eyes are sensitive to polarity, have only to look at the sky. It tells them where the sun is; then they steer by the sun, whether they...
...reason the Navy is interested is the baffling problem that airplane navigators encounter near the North Pole. The magnetic compass isn't much good because of the nearness of the shifting magnetic pole. In broad daylight the navigators can steer by the sun, at night by the stars. But during the long polar twilight they can see neither sun nor stars...
...good solution for the problem would be a simple, accurate instrument to measure the polarity of the twilight sky and reveal the position of the sun below the horizon. Then the sun could be used to steer by, just as if it were visible. If Dr. Waterman's work is successful, U.S. pilots may some time steer across the North Pole, high above the overcast, guided by an instrument patterned on the eye of a horseshoe crab...
...month helped cure Winner Rawls of a fast-developing slice. ¶ Choate Webster, 26, of Lenapah, Okla. and his horse Popcorn, permanent possession of the $5,000 Sam Jackson silver trophy; at the Pendleton, Ore. Roundup. For the third year in a row, Cowpoke Webster topped the field in steer roping, calf roping, and bulldogging, became the first cowboy to retire one of the most coveted awards of the rodeo circuit...