Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...found the description in your article "A Ghost Town of Gantries" [April 15] somewhat disheartening...
...seemed almost a pity. If Harvard had to have a fly fishing club, it's a good thing that somebody named Geordie Thomson would be the president of the thing. After all, Geordie Thomson's name sounds like a trout fly, somewhere between a Quill Gordon and a Grey Ghost. Conversations could run like...
...reason for the ghost-town appearance at both space installations is all too obvious: the adventure that riveted the attention of the world for more than ten years is over. NASA'S budget dropped from a peak of $5.9 billion in 1966 to some $3.2 billion this year. Only five of 42 launch pads built at Cape Canaveral are still in use-mainly to launch unmanned communications and exploratory satellites, including...
...country was cowed, when it was not actually collaborating. The networks refused to cover huge antiwar demonstrations. The ghost of Joe McCarthy, though officially vilified, haunted the land...
Until science adopts the same rigorous testing procedures that are applied to any other investigation, the pursuit of any possible "psi" effect will meet with serious and legitimate objections. Miracle workers will continue to produce "paranormal" ghost pictures, bend nails and float objects in midair. Scientists will be confused until they realize that they are incapable of detecting chicanery without expert assistance...