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...specific charges. He also noted that the attacks on Hoover would not prompt the FBI director to resign. Rather, said Nixon, they "would have the opposite effect." In any event, he added, "it would be unfortunate to allow a man after 50 years to go out under a cloud, maligned...
...Canton's White Cloud Airport, the visitors boarded the single plane on the field, a Russian-built Ilyushin-18 and flew off to Peking, attended by a khaki-clad stewardess. When the Americans arrived, Peking was still gripped by winter. The capital's houses appeared bleak brown and gray. Taken to the Hsinchiao Hotel and served a sumptuous tray of cold Chinese hors d'oeuvres, the inexperienced travelers assumed that was their meal. They dug in lustily. When they finished, however, nine other courses followed. "We had food you wouldn't believe," said Connie Sweeris. "Shark...
After allowing 20 of the 44 passengers to disembark, the hijackers ordered the pilot to take off again, but agreed to a closer destination: Canton, 90 miles away. Surprised officials at White Cloud airport fed the passengers, including four Americans, and put them up overnight in a nearby barracks. The next morning, Chinese authorities sent plane and passengers winging home -minus the six hijackers...
...partner causes celestial dimouts of the star Epsilon in the constellation Auriga. These dimouts could not be due simply to a black hole passing in front of Epsilon Aurigae; the collapsar would have to be improbably large to cause that effect. But, as Cameron writes in Nature, a huge cloud of dust trapped around the black hole might act as an obscuring screen...
...Language" [March 8]. After 30 years of reading technical articles on biology, I am convinced that obscure prose shows that the writer is not sure of what he is trying to say. He is like the proverbial cuttlefish that is supposed to evade its enemies by disappearing in a cloud...