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...with the most powerful "microscope" known to science. Its "eyepiece" is a 2½-ton magnet, its light source a giant accelerator that spews electrons in a thin stream. Fired at sheets of metal foil, the electrons whip through the metallic nuclei where they are shoved and twisted by faint electrical fields. In the huge eyepiece, the scattered electrons are counted, their new paths traced. All their measurements told the Hofstadter team that though the center of the nucleus is 130 trillion times denser than water, its edge thins down to cottony fluff...
When Tobey exhorted the nation to rise above sin and return to its virtuous old ways, he evoked the faint tinkle of a Salvation Army tambourine. "When the hearts of men and women are touched," he cried, "they take their inspiration from the Master of Men, and then we will have . . . in this nation a nation in which dwelleth righteousness-and before God it is high time." No one doubted Tobey's sincerity; he spoke from the heart. Once, he was so moved by his own eloquence that he burst into tears...
...days later mountaineers discovered Chulliat's body in a 500-ft. abyss. They also heard faint cries of "Au secours," but saw no one. The mountaineers rushed back down to Chamonix to round up a rescue party. That afternoon the party discovered Barbacki still perched on his ledge. They could not reach him at once; the melting snows were sending rocks crashing down the mountainside...
...Tribes Mission is not for the frail of body or the faint of heart. Its members specialize in unfriendly aborigines and dangerous terrain; they come from any denomination of Protestantism, and their aim is to go where other missionaries have not gone before them. Founded in 1942 by Paul W. Fleming, a onetime missionary to Malaya, the New Tribes Mission has already suffered more than its share of dramatic accidents: five of its missionaries were killed by Bolivian savages in 1943; in June 1950, a New Tribes plane crashed in Venezuela killing 15 missionaries and their children, and five months...
...None of them knew that the wind had sprung up again, or that up the canyon the fire had jumped the control lines. A forest ranger raced along the canyon's edge shouting, "Run! Run! Get out of the canyon!" The group of nine heard his faint voice above them and threw themselves at the canyon wall, scrambling up 200 yards to safety. The others may never have had warning until the flames came rushing and hopping through the head-high chaparral upon them. They...