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Berrigan's political models are no more defined than slapped-up posters of Che and Ho. His political villains are opposite-and-equal cliches, crude, hasty caricatures of a "Brooks-suited investor" whose "manicured fingers" are "infinitely removed from the bloodletting." When it comes to the America he wants, Berrigan sidles into a vision of "Paradise Park"-a Utopia straight out of the pixiest moments of The Greening of America: "Let the people enter, grow, run, fly, perambulate, consume, pull corks from, spread jams and peanut butter on, swim and sun in, et cetera, as the day is long...
...Mexican-born farm-labor contractor named Juan Corona, 37, married and the father of four daughters, but they were by no means sure that they had come to the end of the trail of bodies. They evidently discovered some of the corpses by checking out X marks on a crude map found in Corona's Bible. "I don't know where it's going to stop," said Sutter County Sheriff Roy Whiteaker. "We'll keep digging until we quit finding bodies." That could take some time. In Tehama County, 70 miles to the north, Sheriff Lyle...
...Crude Beginnings. In spite of the physical differences, such sensitive radio telescopes operate much like their optical cousins. Instead of gathering ordinary light, they use their big reflectors to capture the radio energy from the invisible part of the electromagnetic spectrum. The curved surface of the antenna acts just like a lens, bringing the radio waves to sharp focus at a point in front of the dish. There they are picked up by a smaller antenna and piped into the telescope's electronic amplifier. The signals may be translated into audible sounds, traced out by pen-and-ink graph...
Meticulous Design. The first radio telescope, a crude antenna that turned on wheels cannibalized from a Model T Ford, was made 40 years ago by a Bell Labs scientist named Karl Jansky. In contrast, the new German instrument is a model of engineering sophistication. The entire telescope can be rotated a full 360° on a circular railroad-type track in only nine minutes. Its plate-and-mesh reflector can be tilted 90° from a point directly overhead to the horizon in only half that time. Furthermore, the telescope has been so meticulously designed that the stresses caused...
Died. Donald F. Duncan, 78, popularizer of Yo-Yos and parking meters; of a stroke; in Los Angeles. When he first saw Filipino immigrants playing with a crude toy in the late 1920s, Duncan was not impressed: "It looked like nothing, like a potato on a string." So he devised a slip string that let the wooden "potato" spin, registered the name Yo-Yo and embarked on a high-power promotion campaign. Youngsters looped the loop to the tune of up to $7,000,000 annually in sales for Duncan. Although he made another fortune by manufacturing parking meters, Duncan...