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Just, a chubby 19-year-old, lay in state, guarded by four East Berlin athletes. He had been shot in the back of his neck, but no one knew by whom. Communist newspapers promptly published letters from "patriotic mothers," pledging their sons to the People's Police in place...
So when an eclipse was due at Khartoum in the Sudan last winter, Dr. van Biesbroeck laid plans to do the job for good & all. He took to Khartoum a special telescope, 20 ft. long, and set it up in a fenced and guarded patch of desert belonging to the...
Narrow Margins. As the two sides of the House made for each other, shouting curses and grabbing handy weapons, the speaker summoned help on a siren called la Martinella. A phalanx of strapping ushers rushed in. Prohibited from laying hands on the honorable members, the thin line of frock-coated...
Kinsey and his men have taken 16,500 case histories so far. The core of the work is interviewing. The records are preserved on 400,000 punched I.B.M. cards, which are guarded like the gold at Fort Knox. All the recording is done in a code Kinsey invented, which is...
Oversold Public. A large public, happily mixing fact & fiction, apparently believes that space travel is just around the corner. Two years ago New York's Hayden Planetarium whimsically offered "reservations" to the moon and planets. It got 25,000 requests, many of them deadly serious, from all over the...