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Their first trouble came from residents of the local town of Dunoon, who were looking forward to a boost to business from free-spending U.S. sailors. One night a band of about 16 Scots seized the pacifist ringleader, Lawrence Otter, 22, snipped off his four-inch beard and cut his boats adrift. "We don't like you foreigners coming in here causing trouble," they said...
...shouting, cheering throng filled every inch of sitting and standing room -bedecked Manhattan Center on 54th St. An estimated 3,000 people, 1,000 who had purchased tickets for the occasion, were turned away at . The meeting was sponsored by Young Americans for Freedom, a newly- intercollegiate group...
Mindful that the French had set off an atomic blast in the Sahara a year ago, Dr. Kettlewell last spring collected early-arriving migratory moths and examined them under a Geiger counter. One specimen of Nomophila noctuella, a pale buff moth with a one-inch wingspread, showed a suspiciously high count. He pressed it on X-ray film and found that the radiation was coming not from the moth as a whole but from a single small spot in the thorax...
Next stop for the hot moth was Britain's Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell. There, scientists found that its radioactivity was concentrated in a tiny, perfect sphere only 9 microns (four ten-thousandths of an inch) in diameter, just the sort of sphere that is formed by the billions when the fireball of a nuclear explosion touches and melts the surface of the earth. The sphere's age, measured by careful study of its radioactive decay, proved that it must be part of the fallout of the February test in the Sahara. Since the sphere...
...technicians advised the HAA against projecting the show on one large screen at Sanders, and 15 21-inch TV sets will, therefore, be placed around the auditorium...