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...descended the steep stairway into what to all external appearances looked like your typical crackpot scientist's basement laboratory. There were the obligatory vapor-emitting test-tubes, cages full of mice, and banks of multi-colored lights rhythmically beating on and off. Something seemed amiss, however. The mice weren't soiling the copies of Padan Aram that had been placed in their cages. No, it looked to me as though they were reading them...
Frank A. Marciano, superintendent of Building and Grounds for the Quad area, said yesterday B&G personnel had checked Bertram the week before, but hadn't found anything amiss...
Something is much amiss here, and Sherlock Holmes should be just the man to put it right. Unfortunately, Holmes may be on hand in The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, but he is not fully present. He appears quite prominently-gamely played by Nicol Williamson-but the spirit of the master sleuth is nowhere to be found. Instead of pursuing his customary invigorating adventures, Holmes becomes enmeshed in a slack, sorry matter involving anti-Semites, a pasha, an abducted actress, a train race and Dr. Sigmund Freud...
When Roy Wilkins rose last week to address the 67th annual national convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Memphis, nothing seemed terribly amiss. As the group's executive director for the past eleven years, Wilkins, 74, has become the embodiment of the organization that he had labored so energetically to help build. But once the normally soft-spoken Wilkins started talking, he shook the 3,000 delegates out of their calm...
...probe of the eight-year-old $1 billion Viking program was closing in on Mars. The twin Viking 2 spacecraft is scheduled to send still another lander to the Martian surface on Sept. 4, either to expand the search or to stand in for Viking 1 should something go amiss with the first lander. Scientists rate Viking's chances of a successful landing at 70%. Unlike the Apollo lunar module, which could be maneuvered out of harm's way by the astronaut pilot as it neared the moon's surface, the unmanned Viking lander must descend along...