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Accra was in a state of emergency. Thousands of steel-helmeted soldiers in full battle kit ringed the city while rifle-toting security cops raced from house to house in search of arms and explosives. By day, reconnoitering army helicopters whirred at treetop level. At night, the city was stilled by a dusk-to-dawn curfew. Censorship was clamped on outgoing dispatches. So grave was the situation that a long-scheduled visit by India's Prime Minister Nehru was called off for the humiliating reason that Ghanaian police could not guarantee his safety...
...writing in script, assiduously copying such maxims as "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." Art and science are similar exercises in demonstration, not experiment. Instead of spontaneous sketching, the kids dutifully copy reproductions of the masters; Fuller shows scientific phenomena with a Sterno can and a toy physics kit. Fuller prepares lunch himself-usually canned soup, fruit, bread, butter and milk. The kids say grace in Russian, eat at their desks, and return their plates (scraped) to Fuller in the kitchen. If they stick to this Spartan routine through high school, Fuller is sure, colleges will shower them with...
...near miss with the train and the grisly accident with the truck happened last week on the top of a table in a downstairs room of Toots Shor's restaurant in Manhattan. It was the semifinal of a nationwide contest with a combination game and hobby kit that is beginning to give the electric train a run for its money...
...archaeologist's kit, there are more than a dozen other methods that allow him to date the objects he unearths. By measuring the electron emissions from reheated pottery with extremely sensitive instruments, scientists are able to determine when the pottery was first fired. This technique, called thermoluminescence, was used to date Greek pot shards from the Agora, near Athens, back to the 9th century...
...farm boy named Edward Wyllis Scripps bought or started 52 dailies as well as a news agency (United Press) and various feature syndicates. Hearst, another prodigious newspaper buyer, acquired a total of 42 dailies, also had his own wire service (International News Service), a Sunday supplement (American Weekly), a kit bag of magazines, and even a film company (established mainly to produce star vehicles for his mistress). In 1933, with 27 papers, Hearst controlled 11.2% of U.S. daily circulation and nearly 20% on Sunday...