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...fear reached a peak when they saw a glowing UFO from the highway. The sighting, Simon theorizes, served as a "day stimulus" for subsequent nightmares and wish-fulfillment fantasies. Betty, who is childless, described an obviously Freudian encounter with a humanoid who examined her and inserted a six-inch needle into her navel, explaining that it was a pregnancy test. Barney, who generally considers the Irish to be hostile toward Negroes, remembers being treated with respect by a humanoid who looked Irish...
...based on the fact that most rocks and minerals contain a small impurity of uranium, which fissions (splits), leaving tiny scars or tracks inside the substance. Until recently, this phenomenon remained unobserved. Walker found that even with an electron microscope the fossil tracks were too tiny-.001 of an inch long and only ten atoms wide-to see in significant numbers...
...Negro Family. It is a problem that deeply fascinates the author of the still controversial "Moynihan Report" on the Negro family. Reading the Washington Post one day in 1963, Moynihan, then special assistant to the Secretary of Labor, was drawn to a three-inch story: 50% of the young men who had recently been called for armed forces preinduction tests had failed either the physical or mental examinations. Moynihan decided to follow the well-known statistic to its source...
Finding the war in Viet Nam a "troubling sore point" among the Soviets, Valenti gave his hosts the highest assurance that President Johnson "wanted peace and an honorable settlement." After all, explains Jack, during his White House days he read "every raw inch of intelligence that crossed the President's desk." Otherwise, Valenti found "the spirit of Glassboro very much alive and breathing" during his mission to Moscow, proudly announced that the dozen U.S. entries pulled more than half the festival attendance...
...with the same diligence, M. Romains makes every character comic, with nary a serious foil--which is something like painting a picture without an inch of void...