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...sunny side, where temperatures rise as high as 250°F., the luminescent meteorite particles that litter the lunar surface give off a small amount of light as soon as they are struck by the solar protons. On the dark side, the meteorites cannot luminesce because of the-240°F. cold; instead, they absorb the energy of the protons. During the two-week lunar night, Sun estimates, one pound of meteorite particles would soak up more than enough energy to burn ten 100-watt light bulbs for one hour...
...week during this first summer, Lindsay has spent a couple of hours walking through the ghettos, accompanied by plain clothesmen and one of his aides. Tanned and in shirt sleeves, the Mayor walks unannounced into the offices of community organizations and businesses, stopping to answer questions, to clean up litter, or to note down a rubbish-filled vacant lot or a particularly dirty street. Residents are only too eager to show him their problems. On one walk a few weeks ago in Harlem, a group of teen-agers ran up to the Mayor waving a dead rat, one of them...
...area is a shambles. Gas and elec tric pipes litter the landscape. Giant earth movers snarl uphill and down. A tornado knocked the roof off the country-clubhouse even before it was finished, and as for the golf course it is still nothing but rough. Worst of all, the lake bed is dry. Yet customers are descending in droves to buy up lots in a new real estate development called the Lakes of the Four Seasons, a 20-minute drive from Gary, Ind. In less than two months, they have bought 550 of the 2,500 lots. Though prices start...
Zeph Stewart, Master of Lowell House, is flying back from England tomorrow and will arrive at the House at 2:30 p.m. One of the hosts said he would try to blame the litter on Acting Master Arthur T. Sutherland, who atended the party with his wife
Meetings with Mike. The first case involved a paunchy former Army lieutenant colonel named William H. Whalen, who retired five years ago to become a $1.79-an-hour park-litter picker and treeman in Fairfax County, Va. As the FBI told it, Whalen, 51, had worked with Soviet espionage experts between 1959 and 1961 while assigned to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Whalen, charged the FBI, had conspired to turn over to the Russians information covering "atomic weaponry, missiles, military intelligence reports and analyses...