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...drift of radioactivity is expected to blight the Southern Hemisphere. Outwardly at least, the survivors keep a stiff upper lip about what is going to happen. They go to work in the morning, beach in the afternoon, pub at night. Soon, the drinking begins to get a bit heavier, the sex a bit out of hand...
...various stages of progression toward overt cancer, the graphs showed a similar increase with heavier smoking. Cancer-type cells lying dormant but presumably capable of erupting into fatal disease were not found in any nonsmokers or occasional smokers. But they occurred in .3% of slides in the group smoking less than half a pack daily; .8% in the half-pack-to-a-pack group; 4.3% in the one-to-two-packs group; and 11.4% of slides from men smoking more than two packs...
...holiday period that began at 6 p.m. local time Wednesday will run to midnight Sunday. Heavier travel in the remainder of the 102-hour period may bring a change in the early pattern...
...topcoat that reposed in a car parked on Chicago's South Side. The crook grabbed the loot and ran, little knowing that he had been seen by his victim-none other than Track Great Jesse Owens, who burned up the 1936 Olympics. Balding and 30 Ibs. heavier at 46 than in his running days, Illinois Youth Commission Member Owens raced down a flight of stairs, nailed his quarry in roughly 100 yds., failed to clock his own time for the dash...
...faster and faster approach to the lunar surface. Lunik II, the Russians say, landed on the edge of the Sea of Serenity, near the craters Aristillus, Archimedes and Autolycus. They think the last-stage rocket hit the moon too, but they do not know where. Since it was much heavier (3,325 Ibs.) than the instrumented payload (860 Ibs.), it must have splashed a considerably bigger crater...