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...Last summer MWN passed JAMA in circulation, 230,000 to 205,000-an easy enough trick, to be sure, in a magazine distributed free. By adding interns, resident physicians, medical school faculties and certain hospital staffers to its circulation list, MWN gained 70,000 new readers in one swoop. This month, having logged an ad revenue of $7,000,000 in 1964-within striking distance of JAMA-MWN was encouraged to switch from biweekly to weekly publication...
...tosses live meal worms on short trajectories. They trained captive bats to find the meal worms by echolocation, and to pick them skillfully out of the air. Then the entomologists recorded the clicks made by moths and played them over the loudspeaker just as a bat was making its swoop at a meal worm. In 85% of the tries, the hungry bat abandoned the juicy worm and dodged away. A clicking moth presumably would have escaped...
...average endowment: $400,000). "Here we are -a teen-ager among the university giants," said President Abram L. Sachar, "and we had better be good to warrant going steady with the best." With the latest gift, he added, "we will secure virtually all our tenured professorships in one fell swoop. This will make academic history...
...still live in the country's corrugated outback. They are mostly broad-faced descendants of the Maya Indians, and every year more and more of them drift into Guatemala City, creating new urban pressures. The military draws fire for its heavy-handed security checks. In one clumsy swoop last week, 200 men and women were arrested for failure to carry identification papers. Yet Peralta has promised elections before Sept. 15, 1965. Meanwhile, the boom keeps going...
Lonely Are the Brave. To the 6,624 athletes who will soon swoop into Tokyo, the city has indeed offered its all. Fully $65 million has been spent to renovate and erect sports facilities, as well as an Olympic Village replete with trees and ornamental shrubs. In the Olympic Cafeteria, 150 separate menus will provide 520,000 lunches, suppers and breakfasts of champions. Dominating the Olympic Tokyo is Architect Kenzo Tange's shell-shaped National Gymnasium complex, where swimmers and basketball players will vie, while the first judo competition in Olympic history will be conducted beneath the bat-winged...