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...inexorably controlled by the weather in their buying habits. Statisticians found that every degree of temperature below normal on any day in spring, and every degree above normal on any day in fall, will cause retail sales to fall off exactly 1%. Furthermore, they reported, every one-tenth inch of rain that falls between 7 a.m. and 11 a.m. on any day inevitably depresses sales...
Outrageous Demands. Silver Lance is the creation of Marine Lieut. General Victor H. Krulak, 52, a toughened specialist in guerrilla and counterinsurgency warfare. Krulak and his staff began planning the exercises in September, finished with a four-inch-thick "script" that covered the histories of the make-believe countries, the developing political situations there, and the events that led to the Lancelotians' request for U.S. military aid. Also in the script: 2,000 "incidents," or problems, with which Krulak wanted his people encumbered, such as the pesky natives on the beach, a Lancelotian request for school textbooks, a native...
Most pot parties are not really so wild. "You don't go around ripping off your clothes or anything." one coed says. Typically, one recent evening in a darkened Cambridge apartment near Harvard, two girls and two boys lounged around a candle, smoked four joints (each three inches long and less than a quarter-inch thick) in 21 hours. At first they chattered animatedly about what records to play: Charlie Parker won out over a Bach B Minor Mass, and the sound track from Black Orpheus over Charlie Mingus. Then the smokers lapsed into sporadic metaphors and banalities. They...
...outside layers were such a serviceable insulator, that all parts of the steel casing remained at air temperature. The nozzle was meant to erode slightly as the corrosive exhaust gases raced out at supersonic speed. But after its throat cooled, the big nozzle looked almost new; about half an inch had been tooled smoothly away as if by a delicate grinding machine. If X rays show no internal damage, the nozzle can be used again...
...land was devoid of life; the atmosphere may have been unbreathable for most mod ern creatures. But in shallow pools, say the paleontologists, a dim kind of life was stirring. The bottom was covered with hard hummocks - mounds made of tight-packed vertical columns, a fraction of an inch in diameter, that were created by living matter...