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Turk's Private War. The cops pulled their prey into daylight and eyed him warily. "Have you a gun?" one asked. The man coyly examined himself, peeked inside his undershirt with a smile. "No," he said. The cops let their man dress and breakfast on ham & eggs, then carted him off triumphantly to Amsterdam. At last they had captured the notorious Captain Raymond ("Turk") Westerling, international buccaneer and soldier of misfortune...
Harvard students will lose an hour's sleep tonight. Eastern Daylight Saving Time will move all clocks ahead an hour at 2 a.m. Sunday morning...
Public spirited Bostonians rescued the embryonic Observatory from obscurity, however. In March 1843, the appearance of a bright daylight comet aroused popular interest so that the present Observatory has often been spoken of as being "born of a comet." Funds were raised for a telescope that was to be second to none than operating...
...people have swarmed into Rio looking for a better life than they had in the provinces. Many of them ended up in shantytowns. Today the favelados number an estimated 500,000, about three-fourths of them Negroes. Rio's cops, tough as they are, avoid favelas even by daylight. "As a sanctuary for criminals," said the newspaper O Globo, "the favelas are as inviolate as the ancient temples. The law . . . stops at the base of the hill, as if it were the frontier of a foreign country." Cariocas fear favela-bred epidemics of disease and crime, but they fear...
...weather station. Then he convinced Major General William D. Old that it was time to organize Project Icicle. The time to land on T3, they decided, was shortly after mid-March. The earth would be tilted properly on its axis and they would have the benefit of 24-hour daylight...