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...some compensations. Flying out of Washington for a weekend with his convalescing wife at Squaw Island, Mass., John F. Kennedy was such a welcome arrival as far as Caroline, 5, and John Jr., 2, were concerned, that he got a couple of running kisses that would make any daddy glow -and millions of voters feel properly sympathetic...
...fish fancier what a Ferrari man is to a Chevy driver. Marine specimens are hard to get, harder to keep, expensive to feed, and demanding of space, time and attention. But they are the most strangely marked and wonderfully colorful creatures on earth-so brilliant that they seem to glow with their own light, making fresh-water tropicals look drab. This is one reason why there are some 250,000 private marine aquariums in the U.S. today, ranging in size from 21 gallons to 50 gallons, while 15 years ago there were almost none...
...milk bottle will plop onto the dry crust of Mars, set itself up on three self-adjusting legs, and begin a search for life. The detector will not be looking for bug-eyed monsters or giant, exotic plants. It will be satisfied with nothing more than a faint, fluorescent glow in its own compartmented innards...
Into this mixture the multivator will squirt a shot of test chemicals-fluorescein spiked with phosphate. The fluorescein cannot give off its telltale glow until the phosphate has been removed, and nothing can remove phosphate better than the enzyme phosphatase, which is common to all life on earth...
...night sky is never completely black. Even when the moon is down, the stars and nebulae give off some light. And that small glow is equalled by a chilly, luminous layer far out in space which surrounds the earth like a diaphanous green veil...