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...sweet it was-the dull Republican convention in Miami. At least the newsmen didn't need Blue Cross...
There is nothing dull about the good people of Sultan, Wash, (pop.: 960). They like a county fair as much as any body else, and they'll whoop and holler with the best of them. But what happened last week was the wildest thing in Sultan's history since the 1884 visit of the Black Diamond Minstrel Company. By the thousands, strangers streamed into the tiny hamlet hard by the Skykomish (Big Sky) River, 48 miles northeast of Seattle. As the incredulous Sultanites watched, onward trooped hundreds of hippies, pseudo hippies, camp followers, hangers-on, even some ordinary...
...rings become contaminated? Since radon has a half life of only 3.8 days (meaning that it loses half its radioactivity in that interval), the seeds should soon have become harmless. Trouble is, the radon turns, by nuclear alchemy, into lead-210, the radioactive isotope of that normally dull metal. The lead-210 adheres to the gold. Even so, the intact seeds are safe because the lead's rays, unlike the radon's, remain trapped inside. But in melting for salvage, the lead is released. It takes 22 years to lose half of its activity and its potential...
...torrent of analytical advice that pours from Wall Street is hardly noted for its literary style, much less its wit. "We send a great deal of literature to our clients-most of it deadly dull," says Sidney Homer, 65, research partner of Salomon Bros. & Hutzler, one of the Street's largest bond dealers. Last week, however, Salomon Bros, was mailing its clients something different: a privately published book of Homer's needling sallies at the very serious world of bond investment...
...HACK: The source is England's hackney horse, a creature that was let out for hire; it was usually mistreated, and became dull, broken down and exhausted. The word is particularly adaptable to politics, because political hacks are disciplined by a party whip...