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CITY WRECKER The 60-foot Redstone guided missCe
thunders into the stratosphere during a recent Ordnance
Corps test at Patrick Air Force Base, Fla. It was developed
by the guided missile team headed by Dr. Wernher Von
Braun at Redstone Arsenal and is now one of the projects
of the Army Ballistics Missile Agency. Now designed to
strike targets at 200-mile range, the Redstone is fore
runner of city-wrecking weapon that will carry atomic
destruction to enemy target 1500 miles away. (Department
of Defense photo.)
Is That So?
To add fuel to the fire of won
derment, did you know that . .
the female nereis, a marine
worm, dies in reproduction: in
the moment of fertilization, she
literally explodes, scattering her
fertilized eggs in every direction
A large elm may put forth
7,000,000 leaves a season whose
total surface expanse ; amounts
to more than five acres!
A duck can fly upside down.
. A fly can detect sugar in a
dish in which there is only one
part rof sugar to 'a million parts
of water ... a solution so weak
that there is no chemical means
available to prove the presence
of sugar. " " r
The firefly has Ihe largest
number of facets in each eye.
There are 4,600 of such tiny
eyes,, each with its own cornea
and retina.
If the nest eggs are systematic
ally removed, a pheasant may
lay 100 eggs a year.
All spiders spin more than one
kind of silk. The orb weavers,
for example, spin four kinds:
one for ballooning through the
air and for drag lines; another
for cocoons; and two for two
types of webbing net silk and
trapping silk, the latter covered
with beads of a sticky fluid.
The temperature of a fruit on
a tree, infected by fungus, rises
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one to two degrees over that of
the rest of a tree.
. It takes one hour to soft-boil
an ostrich egg.
The largest living spider in the
world is the Theraphosa lebondi
of western Africa , whose legs
span 10 inches, the diameter of
a dinner plate. Its body is 3Vz
inches long, v ;
In the last three centuries the
world's population has grown
from 500,000,000 to 2,500,000,-000-
and in the next 30 years, it
is expected, it will number 4,
000,000,000. . ' .
Eggs Laid Early .
A horned owl lays its eggs as
early as mid-February often
sitting on its eggs with snow
humped over its back; while a
cedar-waxwing or the goldfinch
often wait until late Augus't to
lay, their ' eggs when sumac
leaves are already reddening.
'ii. Spider silk which can be as
slender as 1250,000 of an inch
in diameter is stronger than a
steel wire of equal thickness.
A total of 1,000,000,000 bac
teria could be packed into a box
shaped capsule whose longest
side would measure l25th of an
inch. "
If a hen is fed onions, its eggs
taste of onions.
Blood leaves the human lungs
at the rate of about one mile an
hour, slows down in the maze of
capillaries, and then speeds up
again on the return journey
through the veins, keeping up
this constant rhythm by pressure
of the pumping heart.
A mosquito cannot walk. Its
legs are long, very thin, and
fragile. They are used for sta
bilizing its flight and upon land
ing are extended like a stork's
legs.
Fresh eggs sink in water, oth
ers float.
Fluid Mixture
There is a small hump-backed
spider with thin legs which can
spray from its fangs on a small
insect a half inch away, a fluid
that is a mixture of gum and
poison. The victim is glued to
the spot by the gum and dies
from the poison.
The jellyfish, Cyanea arctica,
has tentacles 300 feet long. It
lives in the Arctic.
In the average man, some six
quarts of blood circulate
through a system of vessels 60,
000 miles in length over twice
the distance around the equator
which run In size from the
aorta, the artery . leading from
the heart which is an inch and
a half in diameter, down to the
microscopic capillaries the
smallest of them less than
ll,000th of an inch in thick
ness. "With this introduction, I now
suggest that you read Spider,
Egg and Microcosm by Eugene
Kinkead.
(Copyright, 1956. by
Eugene Burns)
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DODUlation is said to be of mixed
Indian and European descent.
Housing for Subversive Groups Left Tangled by Court Refusal
Washington (U.R) The I
Supreme Court has refused to
review part of the government s
entangled program to keep
members of subversive groups
out of federally-aided, low-rent
housing projects.
Before ; the court's refusal
Monday to review a Los An
geles eviction case, state en
forcement was hampered by
various lower court decisions
making the program valid in
some states and not in others.
But now there is even a con
flict in different areas of . a
single state California.
No Blanket Decision
The upshot of the denial of
review is that the program is
outlawed in Los Angeles but ef
fective in San Francisco. Be
couse county appellate courts
have the final word in eviction
cases,, the California Supreme
Court cannot make a blanket
decision that applies statewide.
" The U. S. Supreme Court, re
convening after a four week re
cess, also handed down a batch
of complicated decisions on tax,
labor, public utility and . other
issues.
In a 6-3 ruling of importance
to labor unions, the court held
that strikes against unfair la
bor practices may be called
without regard to the 50-day
cooling-off period" laid down
in the Taft-Hartley law for rou
tine collective bargaining.
Justice Hareld H. Burton's
opinion said neither the law nor
a no-strike clause in a contract
stands in the way. of a work
stoppage when a company pen
alizes its employees for -lawful
union activities. '
The court also agreed to ex
amine the constitutionality of a
Pries! Offers Eyes To Crippled Children
Milan, Italy (U.R) A
Catholic priest dying of cancer
in a Milan clinic has offered his
eyes as a last bequest to war
crippled children he has helped.
The priest, Don Carlo Gnoc
chi, 53, told Milan eye special
ist Cesare Galeazzi, "I want one
of my blind children to see
again with my eyes," Galeazzi
promised he would carry out
the request.
Don Carlo has given some
2,000 war-crippled children new
hope in life through institutes
organized by his foundation.
When doctors announced he
was dying of cancer of the
spine children all over Italy
started praying for him.
Michigan law banning the sale
of books which contain obscene
language or descriptions tend
ing tj corrupt' - youth. Argu
ments on the case will be heard
in the fall. ;
The action in the federal
housing case was the second
of its kind this term. The court
Nov. 7 rejected an appeal from
Milwaukee, Wis., after the
state Supreme Court invalidat
ed the requirement that teni
ants swear they are not mem
bers of subversive groups.
Other suits attacking the
four-year-old law : have been
filed in Colorado, Illinois, Mary
land, New Jersey, New York,
Washington and the District of
Columbia as well as California
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