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...scandal began in April when Lynn Pelletier, a U.S. Customs official acting on a hunch, searched a Volkswagen camper-bus shipped to Port Elizabeth, N.J., from Le Havre. She found 96 pounds of pure heroin secreted behind the fire wall of the bus. The bus's owner, Roger de Louette, had acted slightly nervous when filling out customs forms; he was arrested as he waited on the pier. De Louette claimed that he had been a spy with the SDECE. After being fired, he needed money badly, and accepted an offer to earn $60,000 for shipping the heroin...
Problem is that a year like 1944--the year in which Adolph Green and Betty Comden first appeared in On the Town, a show they had written in collaboration with a young composer by just like any other year. I have a hunch that there must have been a certain schizophrenia in the air. True, the war was on its way to being won, but perhaps underneath the sense of triumph there was also the lurking fear that the best years of many lives had already been lost. They may have danced in the streets the following year when victory...
Writing in the journal Science, Neel and Harris explain the simple procedure that they used to test their hunch. At a local nursery, they bought eight matching pairs of young sweetgum trees. They potted the sweet gums in four-gallon cans in their greenhouse and stopped in every morning to give one member of each pair a brisk 30-second shaking. After 27 days of this routine, the shaken trees had grown only one-fifth as much as those left in peace, had put out fewer lateral branches and developed stouter, tougher trunks. Trees, conclude the authors, have evolved...
...doctor had been sent to examine him. In that case, asked a reporter, why could not Kissinger be lodged in an air-conditioned room in Islamabad? The reply: Kissinger did not want to embarrass anyone in the capital by his illness. At that point, reporters grew skeptical, but their hunch was that Kissinger had gone to see some East Pakistan officials...
Indirect Evidence. To substantiate his hunch that this is what happens on Jupiter, Lieut. Colonel Streett (a mechanical-engineer-turned-physicist who heads West Point's new science research laboratory) calculated the effects of high pressures on hydrogen and helium, the basic gases in the Jovian atmosphere. He deduced that if such a combination were subjected to several hundred thousand times earthly atmospheric pressure (14.7 Ibs. per sq. in. at sea level), the hydrogen would begin to solidify first, its density becoming less than that of the remaining gaseous mixture of hydrogen and helium. Physicist Ringermacher, then a Private...