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...original choice for Vice President was wrong-which would force him to face recrimination from the right-will probably not be known until next summer, perhaps after the Democrats have nominated his opponent. Says a White House aide: "What he'll do is sit down with a batch of polls that tell him just where he stands. If he thinks it's going to be tight and that Agnew might sink him, that's the end of Agnew. Hell, he'd dump David Eisenhower under those circumstances...
...words of the doubting people with impatience. They want to see mature faith instantly, as if souls were like so much freeze-dried coffee just waiting for the hot water and the swish of the spoon. I hate to see these hard hearts jumping in to squelch a new batch of turned-on people. Faith is an ugly thing to nonbelievers. It hurts to hope for something as big as universal love. It's a pain worth having...
...conditioning them by electrical shock to contract when a light is flashed. He then grinds them up and feeds them to untrained worms. Once they have cannibalized their brothers, the worms learn to contract twice as fast as their predecessors. What may happen, McConnell theorizes, is that the first batch of worms form new RNA, which synthesizes new proteins containing the message that light is a signal to contract. Having consumed these memory proteins, the second group of planaria presumably do not need to manufacture so much of their own; they have swallowed memory, as it were...
...center in Saigon keep Japanese-made "laughing bags" on their desks. The little battery-operated noise boxes emit an 18-second burst of hysterical laughter at the push of a button. Officers have been known to push the button during working hours-quite possibly in response to the latest batch of statistics to arrive from the battlefields or hamlets of Indochina...
When orbiting satellites recently transmitted a batch of aerial photographs of China, U.S. intelligence experts quickly detected something new. A number of small holes showed up on the photos, and the analysts figured that they were almost surely "soft" sites for missiles. Their conclusion: Peking is ready to begin deploying medium-range ballistic missiles...