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...been a model prisoner at Menard Penitentiary. The jovial Illinois state auditor who was talked of as a future Governor until he was caught embezzling $1,450,000 from the taxpayers, spent his time teaching classes on how to run a bulldozer, broadcasting as the prison's disk jockey. Now 58 and leaving on parole, Hodge was headed for Granite City to take a job as a clerk in his sister's hardware store...
...irregular, and the part of it that collapses to a small dense core expends most of its gravitational energy. The rest of the star, absorbing this same energy, is blasted away at nearly the speed of light. Some of its material slows down as it tangles with the flat disk of stars and gas that make up the galaxy. It is the parts that move out from the top and bottom of the galaxy that escape to form turbulent clouds that shine as powerful radio sources for hundreds of thousands of years...
...solar system lies in the dense disk of the Milky Way Galaxy and at the safe distance of 30,000 light-years from the center. If a giant star were even now exploding at the galactic center, the earth and its inhabitants would have a good chance to survive the effects of the blast, which they would not know about for at least 30,000 years...
Harold Macmillan may be in demand for years to come-at record stores. On the strength of a long-play disk that was billed irresistibly as Harold Macmillan Sings, the Prime Minister last week seemed likely to become one of Britain's top pop stars...
...other end of the phone is no psychiatrist, social worker or minister, but Michael Jackson, a mobile-faced disk jockey for San Francisco radio station KEWB. English-born Jackson hates rock 'n' roll music so much that he has stopped playing it and now talks all night to anyone who calls him, letting his listeners in on both ends of some pretty fascinating conversations. His midnight to 6 a.m. program is heard from San Francisco to the Canadian border and as far west as New Zealand, and it has made such a hit with listeners that KEWB hopes...