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...young Eastern lawyer complained to an old Texas judge about the Texas way with crime. "I don't understand Texas justice," said the lawyer. "You will suspend sentence of a convicted murderer, but you wall hang a horse thief." The old judge rang a spittoon with a stream of tobacco juice. "Sonny," he replied, "I reckon that's 'cause we got men that need killin' but we ain't got no hosses that need stealin...
...oceans make a great machine that distributes warmth and cold to many parts of the earth. By new, ingenious methods, IGY scientists are studying ocean currents, including those far below the surface. One of them flows under the Gulf Stream in the opposite direction. Even deeper, slower currents flow away from the Poles, carrying icy water along the ocean bottoms toward the equator. This water is rich in nutrient salts, so whenever it comes to the surface, as it does off Newfoundland and Peru, the sea boils with life...
Extra Push. When the ill winds moved over the Atlantic, they blew a little good. The jet stream high overhead was still moving unusually fast, and it got an extra push from the two near-hurricanes that had formed when cold air from the north mixed with tropical air. A British weather ship stationed 600 miles west of Ireland reported a 230-mile wind blowing eastward at 34,000 ft. Transatlantic airliners, hooking rides on it, broke record after record. A turboprop Britannia of British Overseas Airways made the first commercial New York-London flight in under eight hours...
...than a sea-level person, and his red blood cells are bigger and more numerous. If he lives at three, miles altitude, he may have twice as much hemoglobin, the oxygen-carrying substance, as an ordinary person. His heart, which is 20% bigger than normal, pumps an extra-large stream of extra-rich blood, keeping his hands forever warm, as Father Cobo so accurately noted...
Double Header. In Charmes, France, rescuers called a physician to treat Raymond Bralley, 54, who had stumbled in the dark and fallen into a stream, saw the doctor arrive, stumble in the dark, fall into the stream...