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...they had the remains of a $16 bag of candy they had bought. Finally they spotted a U.S. C-130 Hercules transport landing behind a ridge and arrived at a South Vietnamese army compound at An Hoa, 20 miles south of Danang-unshaven and tangle-haired, each 30 lbs. lighter, their feet blistered. Grunted a sergeant as they staggered up to the camp perimeter: "You're lucky. My sentry almost shot...
...experiment involved infinitesimal particles of matter so slight and evanescent that they survived only a billionth of a billionth of a second. In their place they left still lighter particles that made fine lines across a bubble chamber at Brookhaven National Laboratory. And in those curving tracks scientists traced the possibility of trouble for vast and sweeping theories that involve not only tracks in bubble chambers and bits of atoms, but also distant stars and still undiscovered galaxies...
...Brookhaven experiment involved a fast-decaying subatomic particle known as an eta meson, which breaks down into three lighter particles known as pions-one with no electrical charge. According to the theory of symmetry, the positive and negative pions should not have shown any significant difference in speed. But 53% of the time, the positive pion zipped across the bubble chamber with more energy than its negative antiparticle...
...went through 60 songs while Bresler and Duddy shouted, "Stand up straight! . . . Move your arms! . . ." Choreographer Peter Gennaro was enlisted to check her body movements, and Sound Inc. wired her into the latest in echo chambers. Then, after a break-in week in Columbus, Bobbe, now 20 lbs. lighter, opened last month at the Plaza...
Beebe heeded his master's voice. Pre-race speed trials proved that the Fords were far faster than the three lighter but less powerful (by 70 h.p.) P3 prototypes entered by Ferrari. California's Dan Gurney set an unofficial lap record of 142.9 m.p.h. in a Mark II, and Fords won the first four places on the starting grid. That made it easy for Beebe. Start in front, he ordered his drivers, stay in front, force the Ferraris to press, and wait for them to break down. It worked. Pouring on the gas, nudging 210 m.p.h...