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...official record. Much was hoped for, scientifically, from this flight. It had been planned to measure the directional variation of cosmic rays at great heights. The balloon spun round so rapidly during the flight that this could not be done. Jars of fruit flies were to be taken aloft to see if the cosmic rays would produce mutations. While the stratonauts were waiting for good weather the fruit flies died...
...bust believed to contain San Gennaro's head, a reliquary holding two vials of what is supposed to be his blood. Last week brought the feast of San Gennaro. Into the Cathedral thronged clergy, civil officials and masses of Neapolitans. On the altar stood the silver bust. Bearing aloft the reliquary an officiant brought it within San Gennaro's view, turned it upside down to exhibit in one vial an opaque, solid mass. The crowd prayed loudly, none more fervently than a group of poor women chosen as zie di San Gennaro (aunts of the saint...
...last week men, women and children in sultry Manhattan, on the broad beaches of Long Island, at windswept Point Judith, R. I. and in leafy Connecticut stared aloft in wide-eyed wonder at a beautiful flying thing, the like of which they had never seen before. Through a blue cloud-flecked sky it wheeled its solitary way round & round in a wide circle over three states...
...from the leader to the rafters. Grim Fascist squad leaders shinnied up the roof supports and led their blackshirts in a crawling advance along the beams. Since a fight in mid-air would mean scores of falling bodies, the audience leaped up in panic. Sir Oswald bellowed: "Black Shirts aloft-attention! I want no fighting under the roof...
Perspiring with relief, Fascist squad leaders aloft called a truce with the antiFascists and all crawled to safety. By this time half the audience had fled. Jews considered that Sir Oswald in the windup of his speech touched a new high in British antiSemitism. He twitted the Conservative Party for "following the ideals of Disraeli, an Italian Jew,''- lambasted British Socialists (i. e. Laborites) for their "loyalty to Karl Marx, a German Jew" and polished off the Liberal Party by referring sarcastically to one of its Jewish leaders as "that staunch John Bull, Sir Herbert Samuel!" "Down with...