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Holton says the wider distribution of Daedalus began after a "happy accident" in which he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, which is based in Cambridge, Mass.
Like the great actress Eleonora Duse, the great dancer Anna Pavlova last week died in a hotel, in a strange country. In France, near Dijon, a railroad accident kept her waiting for hours in an unheated train. She caught cold and by the time she reached The Hague, planning to...
It was only a month since Speedster Enos Slaughter of the St. Louis Cardinals, galloping into first base, had spiked First Baseman Jackie Robinson. Jackie, the first avowed Negro in the history of big-league baseball, looked at his ripped stocking and bleeding leg. It might have been an accident...
In the dead of the night, the hulks of four 372-ft. cooling towers and two high-domed nuclear reactor container buildings were scarcely discernible above the gentle waters of the Susquehanna River. Inside the brightly lit control room of Metropolitan Edison's Unit 2, technicians on the lobster shift...
Many of those who knew Gayl say her strange life with Bob was less about tragic accident than gothic design. "Gayl was not a puppet. She fell in love," says author and friend Nettie Jones (no relation). Since childhood, Gayl had seemed lost inside her own head. As a student...