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Three red signal flares soared upward, bathing the Oder River in a garish crimson. Seconds later, 140 huge antiaircraft searchlights and the lights of hundreds of tanks, trucks and other vehicles flashed on and illuminated the German lines brighter than a midday sun. Then three green flares soared into the heavens, and more than 20,000 guns of all calibers erupted with an earsplitting, earth-shaking roar. The German countryside beyond the Kustrin bridgehead seemed to explode. Entire villages disintegrated. Earth, concrete, steel, bits of trees spewed into the air. The concussion from the thundering guns was so tremendous that...
...months of 1965 in order to make up for a strike. Yet Detroit is somewhat disappointed that production declined from 1,807,000 in the first nine weeks of last year to 1,740,000 in the same period this year. The first ten days of March seem brighter: though G.M. sales were down slightly from last year's rate, Ford Motor's Ford Division was up 20% to an alltime high for that period, and statisticians estimate that the industry as a whole sold 244,000 cars, up almost 5% from last year. On the other hand...
When the Australian data reached Astronomer Maarten Schmidt late in 1962, he was able to locate 3C 273 in earlier photographs, which revealed it to be a round, fuzzy, starlike object with a faint, glowing jet protruding from it; he had discovered a quasar that was brighter than any yet recorded by his colleagues...
...with an electronic gadget sensitive to invisible infrared. Oke had found a prominent line precisely where Schmidt thought that H-alpha should be, shifted into the infrared. 3C 273 was moving faster than seemed possible; it was farther away than anyone had been prepared to believe, and it was brighter than it should be. Schmidt recalls that he "was in a state of complete shock...
...Harvard hockey team, checked a the verge of greatness for a month, finally came into its own last night with a glorious 7-4 upset of Boston college in the losers' McHugh Forum. Pete Miller and Dennis McCullough which scored twice and goalie Bill Fitz commons shone brighter than he had all star as Coach Cooney Weiland's skaters shot down the highly- touted Eagles for their fourth loss...