Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...AMSOC has about 50 members, but no records, dues, laws or officers; its meetings have been held at Washington cocktail parties with a two-member quorum. Typical agenda item: how to tow Antarctic icebergs north and melt them to irrigate Southern California. But in science the impractical can turn practical overnight with a little cash behind it. In Scientific American this week, Geologist Willard Bascom published the first full report of a onetime AMSOC daydream, which is now backed by the National Science Foundation: to drill a hole right down through the earth's crust to its hidden interior...
Ever since British settlers and visiting aristocrats began potting away at elephants in the pristine wilds of East Africa at the turn of the century, the world's biggest unwalled zoo has been an almost exclusive preserve for the rich, the idle and the professional romantics, ranging from the sturdier of the Riviera set to Ernest Hemingway. But the airplane has made Africa accessible as never before, and since World War II a veritable army of hunters has swarmed into Africa's safari lands...
...dividing line between different materials. Geologists believe that the Moho is the bottom edge of the granite and basalt that forms the lower layer of the earth's crust; under it is the earth's mantle consisting of a mixture of silicates and nickel-iron, which in turn encloses the nickel-iron core...
...herd and keep nipping at him day after day until he weakens. Sometimes it takes a week. In crusted snow that supports wolves, the most formidable moose cannot escape. But deep, soft snow is a refuge for moose; wolves flounder in it helplessly, and there the moose can turn on its tormentors and stamp out their lives. Since the wolves came, reports Dr. Fredine, the island's population has stabilized at about 300 moose and 25 wolves...
Another Year. Once a week Hamlett presides at an informal evening meeting that can eventually turn into either a jazz séance or a bull session. He has led his youngsters off on hamburger picnics, taught them U.S. dance steps, set them to collecting stamps and writing to pen pals in America. Now and then he rents a bus and carts the young Berbers off to fabled Fez, 50 miles to the North, to hear an American singer or lecturer who is passing through. Not long ago he ordered a shipment of hardball equipment, then gloomily canceled the order...