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When Illinois Secretary of State Paul Powell died in 1970, he left be hind an unexplained fortune of $2,000,000, including $800,000 in cash stashed away in shoeboxes in a Springfield hotel. To celebrate the second anniversary of Powell's demise, the Rev. Donald Wheat, pastor of the Third Unitarian Church of Chicago, held a memorial service last week. "If we hold services for Gandhi, Washington, Lincoln and other greats," explained the pastor, "then maybe people like Powell should be remembered by their constituents...
...Monash University, he likes nothing better than to clamber over the rocks of Australia's bush country. Last September, while exploring a rock-rimmed stream in eastern Victoria, he discovered, preserved in the rock, several small imprints of an ancient four-legged creature with webbed five-toed hind feet and possibly three-toed front feet. Geological dating showed that the sediment in which the markings were made was some 355 million years old, which means that they may be the oldest footprints ever found on earth...
...Indeed Rommel was no successful strategist, but he was a brilliant tactician. His campaign in North Africa is legendary and still unequaled. But those junior generals of today sometimes think they know better 27 years after Rommel's death. Are they kicking a dead lion with the hind...
Perhaps the biggest surprise of all came from the seismometers left be- hind on the moon by Apollo 12 and 14 astronauts. The sensitive instruments have registered moonquakes every month when moon and earth come closest together, detected meteor impacts and shown that the moon's interior is in. deed unique: it "rings like a bell" when hit by a meteor. In contrast, the earth barely vibrates when it is struck. To Seismologist Gary Latham, the moon's resonance means that the upper 60 miles of the moon are composed of fragmented and jumbled rock. In addition, ) Apollo instruments have...
...past four years total federal expenditures on U.S. research and development in science and technology have declined in real dollars by more than 20%. "If the decline continues," Lessing predicts, "it will have a delayed, disastrous effect on the economy." Already, he reports, the U.S. lags be hind in a variety of fields. Japan and Europe are far ahead in establishing fast, new train networks and Mexico City has completed a subway system "that is both a great feat of engineering and a work of art." In high-energy physics, Italian scientists using a colliding-beam electron accelerator have come...