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...Soybean protein can be made into synthetic wool-like fibers, now being developed for use in auto upholstery by Ford Motor Co. It is warmer than rayon...
Iceland is now nearly treeless. This is not entirely the climate's fault: its coasts, washed by the Gulf Stream, are warmer than the high country of Colorado, and its capital, Reykjavik, has about the same mean annual temperature as New York City. But while the island was a subject of various European nations during the last 1,100 years, its timber was exploited until its hills lay rock-naked as its lava wastes. New forests never grew because, in winter, shepherds would turn out their hungry flocks, which gnawed groves of saplings, preventing the regrowth of natural forests...
...brother of New Yorker Artist William Steig is the best story so far about hot jazz and the people who make it. Dorothy Baker's Young Man With a Horn showed tinny enthusiasm, a specious literary talent; Dale Curran's Piano in the 'Band had a warmer enthusiasm, less talent. But even Send Me Down leaves a long way to go. Its author has had some actual experience as a jazz musician, has knowledge and taste about the music, can do good reportage on the professional and erotic life of his colleagues. Beyond that he does...
Connover feels that this is the last bit of cold weather that we will have this winter. Although he refuses to predict the date of the arrival of spring, he says that warmer weather is due from now on, and expects the first of it today...
...their moccasined feet specially built racing snowshoes, narrower and lighter than ordinary ones. Three years ago, when Snowshoer Cote set a new world's record, the thermometer registered 10° below zero-and he crossed the finish line with partially frozen feet and knees. Last week it was warmer, and Cote was in less of a hurry. His winning time...