Giant sea scorpions unearthed near Cincinnati
Dr Kenneth E Caster of the University of Cincinnati said fossils 400 million years old may be six feet long and force a revision of sea scorpion classification. Over 100 specimens have been found at Manchester Ohio with distinctive spiny bodies paddled legs and large tail pinchers preserved by volcanic ash.
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Cincinnati
UPI
Kenneth E. Caster
University of Cincinnati
Caster
Manchester
Ohio
UC Geology
Linotron photocomposing system speeds up to 1000 chars per second
Mergenthaler Linotype Co and CBS Laboratories unveil Linotron, a photocomposing system that prints 1000 characters a second. The government printing office has ordered two units for 2.185 million dollars. It can set the Manhattan phone directory in ten hours from scratch, signaling potential census speed gains.
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New York
HTNL
Mergenthaler Linotype Co
CBS Laboratories
Linotron
Mergenthaler
Government Printing Office
Manhattan
J. Kenneth Moore
CBS Labs
Moore
Columbia Broadcasting System
Storks in Alsace lure attention and rescue efforts
A 1950s National Geographic report describes Alsace residents rescuing and housing migrating white storks from Algeria to Alsace. Citizens built nesting platforms, stocked two reservoirs with frogs and fish, and fed young birds until independent. The piece notes global nesting efforts and concerns over habitat decline threatening storks.
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Washington
Sace
France
Algeria
Alsace
Ribeauville
National Geographic Society
Rhine River
Germany
Rhine Valley
Europe
Roger Tory Peterson
National Geographic
New danger found in happiness pills warns doctors
UPI reports physicians are alerted to a withdrawal syndrome from meprobamate, the active in the so called happiness pills Miltown and Equan, with risk of misrecognition and possible death.
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New York
UPI
Miltown
Lady Edison Inventor Patricia Henry Shows Lab on Madison Ave
New York social profile features Patricia Beulah Louise Henry, Raleigh native and famed inventor dubbed Lady Edison. The 60s–70s figure describes her quirky lab life above a Seville Hotel, where she and a pet cockatiel Genevieve conjure new devices including a carbonless copying ribbon for typewriters and various gadgets from sewing machines to roasters.
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New York
Patricia Beulah Louise Henry
Raleigh
N. C
Miss Henry
Lady Edison
Henry
Dahlia
Seville
Madison Ave
Genevieve
William Holden
North Carolina
Profiles in science Rudolf Diesel
The article traces Rudolf Diesel as a student of Karl von Linde and outlines how his work with compressed air and fuel led to the diesel engine. It notes his early career at the Linde Ice Machine Co, his theoretical insights, Krupp backing, and the 1898 success of a working engine that spurred great wealth and wide use.
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Germany
Karl von Linde
Rudolf Diesel
von Linde
Diesel
Linde Ice Machine Co
The
Chronicle-Telegram
P. O
Los Angeles
Calif
Krupp
Fat Parents Pass On Weight Tendencies Says Mayo Doctor
Dr. Edward M. Litin, Mayo Clinic chief psychiatrist, links overeating to easing tension. He notes heredity and environment contribute, with up to eight percent of children of overweight parents becoming overweight themselves.
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Edward M. Litin
Mayo Clinic
Litin
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Storks
Stork Housing Project
Africa
South
Western
Sahara
Peterson
Asia
Champ Inventor
Ers
Stromberg
Carl- Son
American Academy of iGeneral
T. C.mccormick, Jr
Austin
Tex
McCormick
Profiles In Science
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Patrick and
Getze
Amy Marie Geishert
Coldwater Community Health Center
Goldwater
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Bernard Mendelbaum
Detroit
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