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...Apollo 11 sped back to earth last July, Astronaut Buzz Aldrin kept seeing strange flashes of light in the darkened spacecraft, even though his eyes were closed. "I think I'm going out of my mind," Aldrin told Neil Armstrong. While Armstrong and other astronauts confirmed the mysterious flashes, NASA scientists were at first inclined to attribute them to an optical quirk. Now they have proposed a more plausible explanation: cosmic rays. Though only some of these high-speed particles-mostly protons-manage to break through the shield of the earth's magnetic field, they can easily penetrate...
Minor malevolent figures buzz around. Nobody has Shirley's interests at heart; nobody will hear her cry: "I wanted to be loved more!" The girl skitters on the edge of madness, leaping from drab reality to poetic fancy to sheer incoherence, from self-analysis to baths of self-pity. In the process, Miss Gallant's book bounces from high comedy to low, from pure pathos to arch New Yorkerish chatter. But neither heroine nor style ever loses the sharp wit that provides both with rare bite and rarer balance...
...Buzz Clifford, one assumes, didn't groove to cutting lawns and washing cars. But he had to find some way to earn money for malteds and the juke box. Baby sitting proved to be the answer. He sang about one of the toddlers in a memorable tune by what name...
...Being the literati, they are probably discussing their courses, which they love despite the fact they never go. I don't believe these courses are listed in the catalogue, because they don't seem to have numbers or names (or meetings or requirements). They are referred to, mysteriously, as "Buzz's course," or "Gail's course," or, of course, "Al's course...
...hush of astonishment broken by a buzz of generally favorable comment greeted his announement. "It sure beats late May and 1000 pages on dex," one senior said...