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Volume 12, Number 9 November 1961

In This Issue

November 1961
Search Beneath the Sands

Baby earthquakes ripple across Saudi Arabia's Rub' al-Khali desert as Aramco geologists map the subsurface structures in their quest for oil.

 
Zero, Key To Numbers

A thousand years ago the Arabs adopted a dot and turned it into a little circle that made numbers something you can count on.

 
A Zoo is looking...and...listening

In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia one of the most popular spots in town is kept "animated" by some noisy residents.