Word: strangest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Except for varying brilliance, all sources of stellar light look much the same to the naked eye. But seen through the subtle, prying instruments of modern astronomy, those distant points of light expand into a bewildering variety of stars. Among the strangest are the dwarf novas, described by Astronomer Robert P. Kraft of Mount Wilson and Palomar observatories in the Astrophysical Journal...
...perhaps the strangest evidence of all was that Chief Flight Engineer John Mayfield had blithely repaired a fuel pump motor on the Constellation the day before the crash by cutting down a brush taken from a 1954 Mercury automobile generator. As it turned out, the engine with the ersatz part kept going during the fatal flight. But engineers from established airlines blinked in dismay at Imperial's incredibly slipshod methods of maintenance. Said one: "They must have been a little desperate...
Alma questions the neighbors about Cliff and at first gets the expected tame responses. But Faye Laird bursts unexpectedly into tears and her dotty old mother insults Alma. Wealthy, widowed Mrs. Barrington clearly knows more than she will say. Strangest of all are the talks with epicene Willard Baker and the peculiar young man who lives with him. As rumors build slowly into facts, Boyd impatiently tries to stop Alma from digging into events that "should have been for gotten long ago." But Alma is a woman who must finish what she starts, and she rips frantically at the curtain...
...high picture enraged many, as Dali's works usually do. But it is a major work by one of the ablest, strangest and least understood of living artists. Dali himself, with cat's eyes agleam and mustachios en garde, speaks of it as "a meta-pheesical dream." It took Dali six months to paint, and one syndicate reporter estimated that it also put $250,000 in his pocket. The estimate seems absurdly high, perhaps triple the actual price. Says Hartford: "If a quarter of a million dollars is intended as a compliment to Mr. Dali...
...until all the pieces were reassembled, and all the fragments of bodies examined, were inspectors likely to make a knowledgeable guess about one of the strangest crashes in U.S. aviation history...