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...small reception hall presided over by a surly owl with satanically gleaming eyes. But there is no apparent way for the new arrival to get out of the room. Then the receptionist makes a quiet suggestion: a few words, perhaps "Open sesame!", to the owl? The visitor speaks, and, lo, the innocent-looking bookcase near the bird swings open, revealing a crowded bar. The visitor is in The Magic Castle, the U.S.'s only private supper club specially devoted to magicians and magic lovers...
Excellent Vibrations. Mrs. Dixon specializes in lesser catastrophes as well. She is always predicting death or disaster for some friend, and lo and behold, writes her friend Ruth, the poor fellow keels over. On the other hand, some of her visions are quite exalted. She has announced that a child was born in Egypt in 1962 who is destined to be the "greatest power for world good since the coming of Christ." But she did not say who bore the child...
...four panel blades shone purple from the thin sapphire-glass coating that protects their 28,224 tiny solar cells from radiation damage. Its silvery octagonal body, made of magnesium and aluminum alloy, carried 138,000 components, including 31,696 delicate electronic components ranging from a computer to a small, lO½-watt radio transmitter. It was programmed and equipped to send to Earth a continuous stream of reports on 39 scientific and 90 engineering measurements. Crowded into the spacecraft were a new type of helium gas magnetometer to study magnetic fields, an ionization chamber and Geiger counter to measure galactic...
...nature and man's role in the universe, in the dazzling immensity of moral possibility he presents, men diminished by seven centuries of sphacelating materialism may experience a sudden enlargment of life and some of the joy felt by the souls in Paradise who followed after Dante, crying: "Lo, here is one who shall increase our loves...
...Real Risks." To back up Lo's bluster, Red China passed the word that its 200 million-man (and woman) militia had gone into serious training. The mainland press reported shrilly that units on the Yunnan border were engaged in intensive bayonet and machine-gun drill; men and women in blue boiler suits marched briskly through Peking streets with rifles slung...