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Some time in March, in a chamber 400 feet below the tip of the Great Pyramid of Cheops, Egyptian and American scientists will set up a spark chamber to detect a component of cos mic rays called muons. Actually sub atomic particles traveling close to the speed of light, some of the muons will be energetic enough to penetrate the dense structure of the pyramid and pass through the spark chamber, a device consisting of two horizontal pairs of oppositely charged metal plates. Be cause the muon leaves a wake of ionized gas, which conducts electricity, a spark will jump...
...businessmen in a dozen allied fields and clouding the outlook for the entire private sector of the economy. A Western Populist with an instinctive distaste for high interest rates, Johnson in the past two weeks has ordered federal agencies to pump $750 million into mortgage markets. Moreover, many bankers detect signs of a gradual loosening-up of money, are hopeful that 1967 will bring real improvement...
...Supreme Court agreed to rule on the constitutionality of a New York state law that permits police to bug suspects with court approval. And even as the debate raged over the moral and legal implications of electronic bugs, the bugs themselves were growing more versatile and harder to detect...
...romance of spying went out with Mata Hari. Such is the nature of the game today that a lowly government code clerk or a technician who punches computer cards at a missile site may be a more important intelligence source -and far more difficult to detect-than the disgruntled general or the indiscreet diplomat. Last week, in a case that has still undetermined links in Britain, the FBI arrested a characteristically obscure technician on charges of conspiring with the Russians. Held on $50,000 bail was a crew-cut Air Force communications operator and repairman, Staff Sergeant Herbert Boecken-haupt...
...apartment, that Long Beach (Calif.) Independent Reporter Bill Hunter was shot to death in a California police station., and that Dallas Attorney Tom Howard died of a heart attack after which "no autopsy was performed." All three are indeed dead, but it takes a powerful imagination to detect any connection. Reporter Koethe was a beer-drinking bully who liked to hang out with thugs; he had been strangled, not "karate chopped," and police suggested that homosexuality may have been a motive. Hunter was shot accidentally by an exhibitionistic detective he had known closely for years while the cop was clowning...