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...powerful flare had erupted on the sun. As they readied their great balloons, a telephone call came from Alaska; Astrophysicist Harold Leinbach was reporting that his radio telescope at College (near Fairbanks) had detected a sudden blackout of radio noise from space. This indicated, said Leinbach, that a great swarm of particles from the sun was hitting the atmosphere...
...Navy's concern with oceanography has expanded. That concern has brought U.S. oceanographers money, men and resources they never dreamed of before the war, made their specialty perhaps the fastest-growing science in the world. The oceanographic fleet has grown to twelve ocean-going vessels backed by a swarm of small craft and expanding shore establishments full of expensive apparatus. The Russians have proved equally alert to the ocean's dangers and possibilities, have 14 fulltime oceanographic vessels roaming the seas...
...Swarm in Sunlight. With their mounting knowledge, oceanographers are talking with new confidence of the ocean as a source of food. Life began in the sea, and most of it lives there still, grazing on the microscopic plants that swarm in the sunlit upper waters. At the end of a long food-chain (diatoms, protozoa, tiny crustaceans, little fish, etc.) are the fish, lobsters, shrimps and whales that are hunted by humans. Says Iselin: "We are not harvesting the seas. We are just hunting-catching something here and there...
Nevertheless, demons and his men push forward. Several hours later they swarm, exhausted but triumphant, into a bunker just below a fortified crest on Pork Chop Hill. A few seconds later, the U.N. barrage blasts the bunker to rubble. Morale collapses. Lieut, demons tonguelashes his men into the firing line, counts what is left of them (35 men), calls up his small reserve, charges the top of the hill and takes...
...schooners of yesteryear are down to a handful, but they have been replaced many times over by 35-and 45-ft. yawls and ketches, better suited to an age dominated by the income tax and the high cost of other people's labor. Harbors from Maine to California swarm with new thousands of prams, skiffs and small sailing craft. Lumped under the heading of non-powered boats, such craft increased from...