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...Codes. In Ohio's rural Union County, Adams picked up his first, faint signal on a frequency of 650 kilocycles. To his surprise, station WKGR, instead of sending out cryptic or coded messages, was blithely broadcasting standard fare: recordings, news shorts and amateur talent shows, interspersed with hearty commercial plugs for such concerns as the Hildreth Jewelry Store and Conrad Coal Co. of the county seat, Marysville...
...stoop-shouldered, cosmopolitan Muscovite, who left Russia in 1920, easily explained how & why he had produced the drawings. "As a youth, taking Leonardo for my model," he began, "I went dutifully to the anatomy theater in Moscow. Later I was found in a dead faint on the pavement outside . . . But Mrs. Nature you can't fool with her. She's a tenacious woman . . . Twenty years later I discovered what a marvelous transparent vessel the human being is-like a crystal jungle. From that time on, I was trapped in interior landscape." He went back and studied anatomy. "Then...
...Harvard and the other "leading education institutions consider their scholastic ratings and requirements so unimportant that they can, without as much as a faint murmur of protest, allow them to be arbitrarily placed but our Draft officials on a common level with those of every other college regardless of their varying standards...
...right after the murder Kirkes had ordered his coupe repainted, though the garage man insisted it didn't need paint. That same week the big patrolman grabbed an air hose away from a service station man and cleaned out the rear compartment of his car himself. Moreover, a faint mark on the dead girl's legs looked like the pattern of a rear-compartment floor mat found only in Ford coupes. The mat in Kirkes' 1939 Ford was missing...
...scout bee cannot smell flowers at any great distance; its odor perception is about as sharp as a man's. But when it alights on a flower to which it has been attracted by sight, it is so close to the flower's scent glands that very faint odors are perceptible. Most flowers have "scent spots," which the bee feels out with the organs of smell on its antennae. The scent spots lead the scout to the cups where the nectar lies...