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...Peak at Colorado Springs. NORAD also must react defensively to what it sees, and give warning to U.S. and Canadian citizens to head for their shelters-if they have any. Established four years ago, NORAD has recently acquired new techniques to meet the growing threats. It can now detect almost anything bigger than a bird in the air over some 15 million sq. mi. from Iceland to Midway...
According to Von Hoerner's calculators, there are perhaps only ten civilized communities within 1,000 light-years of the earth. But Von Hoerner is convinced (hat if some highly cultured creatures are actually trying to communicate across interstellar space, earth's astronomers could, by concerted effort, detect and interpret the incoming messages...
Visitors seldom detect any Albanian tendency to criticize the government or the country's backwardness-and the Sigurimi are not the only reason. Traditionally proud, suspicious of foreigners, filled with a clannish loyalty, Albanians reply to complaints about their country with fierce anger. "That's the way it is," the average Albanian will splutter. "You just have to understand...
From recent research work with viruses known to cause animal cancers, Dr. Horsfall reasoned that viruses probably will be shown to cause many cancers in man. Then, hopefully, it may be possible to devise tests to detect such cancer-causing viruses before disease develops, and even to work out immunization procedures to keep the viruses from getting into the cells. The heritance of acquired malignant characteristics would thus be defeated before it could begin...
...Charles more than Sonny Terry, because he's more authentic. His two points, that white intellectuals have created for themselves a dreamy and gratifying image of the nonviolent Negro, and have foolishly rejected the beat protest, are made arrogantly. His snottiness would indeed be unbearable if one couldn't detect an undercurrect of self-disgust in Kofsky himself...