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...Reddish Hue. Viking's mechanical arm also delivered soil, scooped from the same trench, to an inorganic chemical analyzer, which will determine the elements in the material. The inorganic chemistry lab's first findings showed that the soil sample contains calcium, silicon, titanium, aluminum, iron and the iron oxide responsible for the reddish hue of Mars. But Viking's arm may have failed to make delivery to still another miniature laboratory, an organic chemistry analyzer designed to look for evidence of past Martian life. After two attempts, telemetry showed that soil had apparently not reached the interior...
...iron that had rusted in the presence of atmospheric or waterbound oxygen. Other rocks, blue-green and opalescent, reminded some scientists of copper ore. After correcting the color values on the photograph, scientists decided that the sky, which looked blue in the original print, was really of a pinkish hue. All in all, the view, far from being alien and forbidding, seemed almost inviting. "Oh, gosh, that's just lovely," said Thomas Mutch, head of the team charged with interpreting Viking's photography. "You just wish you could be standing there, walking across that terrain...
...ladies who take pen in hand are not irresistibly attracted by the blue of my eyes," confessed Oil Tycoon Jean Paul Getty, who, after five wives, still receives marriage proposals by mail. "The magnetism I exert is of another color -green, the hue of my purported wealth." Small wonder. Getty, 83, in an introduction to his forthcoming autobiography, As I See It, estimates his net worth at well over $ 1 billion and that of his family at "about twice again as much." J.P. disclosed that to avoid the sort of inheritance scramble that followed the death of Fellow Billionaire Howard...
...roustabouts looking for fun or profit. As University of Massachusetts Historian Pauline Maier has written: "The Boston mob was so domesticated that it refused to riot on Saturday and Sunday nights, which were considered holy by New Englanders." Indeed, often the "mob" served quite legal ends, as when the hue and cry was set up to apprehend a thief, or when measures had to be taken to deal with public health problems. Small wonder, then, that a member of a mob was rarely convicted for his riotous actions. In the 20th century we have become accustomed to seeing theft...
...response to these conditions was the creation of new, specialized institutions to deal with what had once been left to spontaneous and communal control. At the time of the Revolution, the "police" were nothing but night watchmen who set up the hue and cry if a fire broke out or a horse died in the street. But big cities began to suffer more noisome problems. By the 1820s one out of every 65 Bostonians was, according to Haverford College Historian Roger Lane, engaged in selling liquor. The dozen "houses of infamous character" that nourished in the West End of Boston...