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Before real estate brokers or prospectors slake their claims, however, the ticklish international problem of rights on the continent must be solved. The U. S. held on Little America is weak, both legally and physically, warns Professor Rice, because Byrd's settlement is on the Ross ice shelf, which is tech- nically ocean and a "no mans land...
Last week, with the most ticklish problems of post-war reconstruction still unresolved, President Truman stated that he felt his making a trip abroad to confer with the heads of the other Big Three Powers would not be worth the trouble involved. This rather categorical assertion raises the whole question of the relation between Big Three amity and world peace...
...planning any voyage, the space navigator would have to allow for a host of "perturbations." Distant objects such as Neptune or comparatively small objects such as the moon might pull the ship off its course. A round-trip voyage would be ticklish. The ship would have to circle the objective planet and come back just in time to meet the earth. A miss would mean a plunge toward...
...Ticklish Task. In St. Joseph, Mo., police were out to find a missing woman described only as having a scar...
...Dominion Government it was a ticklish problem. Last week Fisheries Minister Hedley Francis Gregory Bridges pointed to the difficulty. Ten affidavits received from masters and mates of fisher men told of damage done but had not said what foreign trawlers had done it. Moreover, the Quero Bank was outside Canada's three-mile limit...