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...bath, I want a bed, I want clean clothes," said Sharon Mann, 23, a drama student in a formerly yellow blouse. Aleyda Warren, a Londoner who had been visiting friends in Connecticut, figured that she had spent $100 during her four days in line. Other standbys were cheerful: Bill Lockyer and his wife Joy, a retired couple from New Zealand, had seen a Broadway show (Elizabeth Taylor in Private Lives) with the money they would save on People. A bargain, said Lockyer; if they lost out on the Saturday plane they would line up the next...
...length violet light at one end to longer-wave-length red at the other, star spectra show a series of characteristic bright and dark vertical lines that indicate the presence of specific chemical elements. In 1868, one such line in a spectrogram of the sun enabled British Astronomer Norman Lockyer to detect the existence of a new element-helium-before it was discovered on the earth...
Last week the red-faced Times said that its Christmas Eve visitor - who proved to be Thomas Lockyer Graeff, a 30-year-old Angeleno who is petitioning to get his name legally changed to Jesus Christ II -had not come back to reclaim...
...heavy rock and a vast sandstone altar. Some 80 yards away stands a marking stone known as the "Friar's Heel." At dawn on Midsummer Day (June 24), the rising sun casts a shadow of the Friar's Heel on the great altar. Astronomer Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer has calculated that on Midsummer Day, 1680 B.C., the sun rose directly over the special marking notch that can still be seen on the Heel. Libby's measurements tend to confirm Sir Joseph's guess: that Stonehenge was built about 3,800 years...
...Richard left school at 12, became a newsboy, printer's devil, shoemaker's apprentice. He studied in his spare time, attracted the attention of Clifton College's headmaster who helped him get an education. He taught for a year, then became assistant to Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer, the astronomer who discovered helium in the sun. In 1893 he joined Sir Norman on the staff of Nature, succeeded eventually to the editorial chair. As a final distinction, Sir Richard Gregory will have no successor. Henceforth the editorial affairs of Nature will be managed by a board...