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...menhaden, a fish that can produce 700,000 eggs at the flip of a gill, was long one of the leading population exploders in the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico. Loaded with oil and bone, the eight-inch fish is about as welcome at a dining table as last Friday's halibut. Still, it is avidly sought by commercial fishermen because its oil is used in everything from lipstick to paint, and its meat and bones can be ground into high-protein animal feed...
Split Image. To test his suspicion, Kuiper loaded a team of scientists, a twelve-inch telescope and some complex infra-red instruments into a NASA Convair 990 jet last month and flew along a computer-determined course between Montreal and Lake Superior. At its 37,000-foot altitude, the plane was above 99.5% of the earth's atmospheric water vapor, which ordinarily confuses ground-based astronomers attempting to determine the amount of water on other planets...
What is more, they have the muscle to make the play work. With vitamin pills a staple on his breakfast table, and a well-balanced diet to nourish him all through his youth, the average U.S. college freshman of the '60s is half an inch taller than his father, and still growing. It is no surprise, says Vince Lombardi, coach of the pro champion Green Bay Packers, that "today's football player is bigger, faster and sharper mentally." Today's baseball player is bigger too. In almost every sport, the good big man is displacing the good...
...return, the Negro veteran of Viet Nam finds himself cast back into the ghetto and a social immobility equivalent to the triple-canopy of the Southeast Asia jungle. "He's seen miles of progress in Viet Nam," says Beauregard Brown, "when there wasn't an inch of progress at home in Harlem or Jackson." The Urban League's Whitney Young Jr., one of the few Negro civil rights leaders who have visited Viet Nam, warns in Harper's June issue that, along with his "new confidence," the Negro G.I. has acquired new skills "of guerrilla warfare...
Every once in a while they'll have shakedown inspections at the bases. They'll go through every inch of the barracks. But the old generation does not really know how much of it there is and they don't know what to look for or where to look. So it's pretty easy to get away with. In fact, it's damn easy. When I was a sergeant in Texas, I had a room to myself and we used to have pot parties in my room in the barracks right in the middle of the army base...