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...national security" grounds; as the government has admitted, and as Morland had contended all along, the supposedly "secret restricted" information contained in the article had been available to the public from a variety of unclassified sources, including several public libraries, scientific journals and the current edition of the Encyclopedia Americana...
...cream parlor famous first for its long lines, and only secondarily for its ice cream. For the adventurous, there is Game Time, a classic pinball parlor that Cambridge cops and politicians have tried several times to close down. There's also a Sears, Roebuck, a haven of middle-Americana only a mile away from the cosmopolitan--and expensive--Harvard Square. And from Porter Square all the way out to Fresh Pond at the far end of the city, Mass Ave is lined with stores and restaurants, many--like Vic's Eggs on One or the Newtowne Grille--offering the solid...
...nature and, lately, the best efforts of man to squash it, spray it or bug-bomb it into extinction. Some 3,600 species of the hardy creature thrive in a variety of habitats all over the world. Now one of the most common species in the U.S., Periplaneta americana, or the American cockroach,* may be hit by a blow below the belt: scientists have synthesized periplanone B, a chemical that acts as one of the female roaches' essences d'amour...
...trying more adventurous approaches too. In March it treated viewers to a peek at the topless chorus girls of the Folies Bergere in Paris (a similar show had been on HBO earlier). Its other offerings have included What's Up, America?, a magazine-type show taking looks at Americana (a honeymoon hotel, an erotic bakery), and specials featuring Lola Falana, Engelbert Humperdinck and Debbie Reynolds...
...sounded as if they had low blood sugar, and I offered to send them sandwiches," recalls Webb. For the winner, Elaine Koster, 37, editor in chief and publisher of New American Library, the problem was breathable air. The cooling system in her office overlooking a gaudy flank of the Americana Hotel had been shut off. At 8 p.m. she retreated to her more comfortable West Side apartment for the final and triumphant round...