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...Libby, 40, stumbled (for three years) on the carbon 14 dating method." Age of Bison. Libby is a solemn, slow-spoken and serious man, and in his office at the AEC he seems weighed down, even a little awed, by the burdens of his position, where a single slip of the tongue may betray a national secret. But when carbon 14 is mentioned, he lights up like a Roman candle. He remembers with special pleasure his dealings with the archaeologists. "They are all as poor as church mice," he says, "but such enthusiasm!" They brought him unimpressive things -fragments...
...ritual as solemn as any that democracy provides. People wore Sabbath clothes, and there was a Sabbath-like quiet in the air. Some 800,000 voters, half of whom cannot speak or write the language of the country with any fluency, entered the polling booth, carefully selected a slip bearing that let ter of the Hebrew alphabet symbolizing their chosen party, inserted it into a thin brown envelope and, emerging, dropped it into the ballot box in the presence of election inspectors...
Hiccuping lightly, Betty was whisked off the Hollister, and the embarrassed Navy decided not to press an official inquiry into several unanswered questions, e.g., who helped smuggle Betty aboard, and how did she manage to slip past the quarterdeck watch? By week's end silence had settled over the incident, to which Betty herself, back at her favorite haunt, Kilroy's Club Alibi, was contributing nothing. "I was drunk," she said primly. "I don't wish to make no further statement...
...level, but at that point he noticed a couple of small avalanches break off to one side. After talking it over, the boys decided to start back down. Suddenly apprehensive, they slipknotted themselves onto a length of quarter-inch Manila line. It was another error-mountaineers never use slip knots, lest the ropes tighten around their midriffs...
Many millions of dollars worth of U.S.-made strategic items slip behind the Iron Curtain each year. For some the Reds will pay three times the current U.S. price...