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Primarily to make sure the $87 million laboratory's machinery was working properly, mission controllers pointed HEAO-2's x-ray telescope, the largest and most sensitive ever used, at Cygnus X-1, a well-known radiation source that astronomers think may be a black hole. The resulting picture encouraged scientists at the Harvard-Smithsoman Center for Astrophysics, which has been deeply involved in the project...
...campaign against him by Democrat William Fitzgerald, who even blamed Milliken for a public scare over Michigan farmers' use of the controversial pesticide PBB. Replied Milliken during the campaign: "It's a terrible thing to pander to people's fears." He finally won with 57% of the vote-his largest win in three elections...
...floor Security Pacific National Bank headquarters in Los Angeles looks like a granite-and-glass fortress. Dark-suited guards roam the lobby. Hidden cameras photograph customers as they make deposits and withdrawals. Yet last month, this stronghold was the site of a $10.2 million heist, the largest bank robbery in U.S. history. There were no guns, no masks, no getaway cars; indeed, the FBI reports that the Stanley Mark Rifkin thief never touched the money. The robber was so clever that the bank did not realize it had been robbed until told so by the FBI eight days afterward. Last...
...conglomerate; of an apparent heart attack; in Fort Worth. During World War II, Tandy noticed that disabled sailors liked leather-craft, and started marketing scraps and tools to hospitals through his father's shoe-leather company. By the early 1960s, he directed Tandy Corp., the nation's largest purveyor of handicrafts, and in 1963 added a bankrupt chain of ham-radio shops called Radio Shack that he eventually expanded into a company of 6,500 outlets, currently grossing more than $1 billion yearly...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) will receive the largest allotment of $800.000, while the School of Education and the Divinity School will each receive $100.000 loans...