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...this hot, blue Sunday morning, on this pontoon in Hong Kong harbor, on a crate marked PRECISION EXPLOSIONS, LTD., the priest sits safely. He has just arrived from Haiphong with 28 others, who five weeks ago slipped aboard too small a junk and trusted themselves to the South China Sea. Behind him the junk bobs crazily in the harbor, giving an idea of how it must have rolled in open swells. His fellow refugees huddle together on the pontoon, staring straight ahead, as if posing for a formal family photograph, and sipping water from an orange plastic bucket passed from...
...soda. Or "doughnuts that look like they're about to implode." Or incense with erotic pictures on the packages. Or mixed nuts. Or penny candy, gum, or mints. Even the customers who refer to it as "Steal 24" admit that the place seems to stock every type of junk food known...
George J. Callcott, 52, professor of history at the University of Maryland, on why the personal papers of former Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, donated in 1974, have not been catalogued: "A majority of it is historic junk...
...definite slot for his experiment--on space lab II, the shuttle's 22nd flight, now scheduled for 1984. Fazio's proposal is a telescope designed to detect regions in the galaxy where stars are being born. On earth such a telescope is cluttered by infrared rays from "atmospheric junk," Fazio explains. An infrared telescope on the space shuttle, however, would be expected to collect more accurate and complete data...
...times. He even keeps a "Dead" file in his desk--with the London newspaper that praised a new revue of songs "written by the late Tom Lehrer," and the German clipping that announced his demise from "a loathesome disease." "I was hoping the rumors would cut down on the junk mail," Lerher said recently, "but they didn...