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...General Motors Defense Research Laboratories, Santa Barbara, explains a likely purpose of the photophores. The creatures that carry the belly searchlights, he says, live at ocean depths (less than 3,000 ft.) where sunlight barely penetrates. These waters are the hunting ground of fish with eyes that point permanently upward. What they normally see is the last faint trace of sunlight, which looks like a dim blue ceiling. When they see a dark and edible-looking object silhouetted vaguely against the ceiling above, they dart up and grab...
...greens hard and slick. At times, the gusts seemed to come from every direction, spattering sand in players' faces, carrying well-stroked shots into the rough. On the 14th fairway, Tony Lema tossed a handful of grass into the air, stared stupefied as the grass soared straight upward. Of 401 rounds played, only five were below par 71-incredible in this day of precision golf. There were so many climatic complaints that it was soon called "the Crybaby Open." "This persnickety blankety-blank course," muttered aging (51) Sam Snead, his hopes of finally winning the Open shattered after rounds...
...only the second day of voting by the 80 cardinals who had gathered there to name Pope John XXIII's successor.* But no one anticipated a long conclave-and the expectations were not wrong. At 11:22, smoke began billowing from the rickety metal chimney that led upward from the Sistine Chapel, where in a ceremonial stove the used ballots were burned. Twice the day before, a few puffs of white had first appeared, but then the smoke had turned a disappointing black-the signal that no Pope had been chosen. This time there was no mistake: the smoke...
...library as large as Harvard's must grow rapidly just to keep its collection up to date with the results of recent research. And in an inflationary period the cost of books and periodicals has risen sharply. The cost of building operation and maintenance has moved upward at an even more alarming rate. Decentralization, which has had highly beneficial effects on scholarship, is also to be credited with sparing Harvard the necessity of replacing Widener with a vast, multi-million dollar central library building. But decentralization increase difficulties and costs in other directions...
...Logan last year reached $81 million; Maurice Saltzman's Bobbie Brooks was close behind at $75.5 million. Ranged well below them but growing fast is a $20 million to $30 million tier that includes Majestic Specialties, Russ Togs and White Stag, and a third echelon that is working upward from the $10 million plateau...