Word: guess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bank statement be photographed; it showed a hefty overdraft. "It represents," Wilson quipped wanly, "a sort of balance-of-payments crisis." Dubious Britons noted that he has just sold his memoirs to the Sunday Times for such poundage that even Timesman reportedly were afraid to admit the price. Insiders guess Wilson's fee is between $576,000 and $624,000-enough to turn all his red ink black...
...tuned his piano to 422, which means that the Concerto No. 21 in C (K. 467) is really a concerto in C sharp (or possibly D flat). As for Bach's B Minor Mass, it may have been written in B minor, but it is anybody's guess as to how many cycles per second were vibrating in Bach...
...first seven, all detected since 1966, were reported a year ago by Drs. Arthur Herbst and Robert Scully of Boston's Vincent Memorial Hospital, the women's division of Massachusetts General. Another Boston doctor discovered an eighth case. The doctors then could not even hazard a guess to explain this sudden cluster of rarities. Moreover, all but one of the cancers were of a cell type different from that found in older women. So Herbst teamed with fellow Gynecologist Howard Ulfelder and Disease Detective David Poskanzer to do some backtracking...
...after the accident the cosmonauts' bodies were publicly displayed in Moscow's Central Army Hall. (One puzzle: a heavy bruise was observed on the right side of Patsayev's face.) Why, then, were the Soviets so secretive about the cause of the deaths? Westerners could only guess that Soviet space officials were being cautious, determined to be absolutely certain about what went wrong before announcing the results of their investigation...
Last May, Ellsberg appeared at a Washington antiwar rally. He berated a group of demonstrators for their lack of zeal and promptly took charge. "I tried to get arrested," he explained later, "but I guess I didn't look young enough." Boston police had no such qualms. One officer clubbed Ellsberg at a Mayday protest at Government Center. Bellicose or pacific, Ellsberg sought the center of the action...