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...primitive man might have carved his impressions of the great event-markings that could be archaeologically dated to determine more precisely when the Vela supernova occurred-NASA Astronomers John C. Brandt, Stephen P. Maran and Theodore Stecher last year issued an appeal. They asked archaeologists to be on the lookout, especially in the Southern hemisphere-where the Gum nebula can be best observed-for any unidentified ancient symbols that might have been painted or carved to represent the supernova...
Smugglers are wary of sharp-eyed immigration agents and highway patrolmen, and must frequently take back roads and lengthy detours. Sophisticated smugglers, some of whom make $75,000 a year, employ two-way radios, lookout cars, and rented vehicles that are hard to trace. A few unscrupulous operators have even been known to recruit willing mojados, load them into a waiting vehicle at $250 a head, and then renege on the contract by dumping them 15 miles north of the Mexican border for a tidy profit with no risk involved, since their victims can hardly complain to the police...
...Great White Fleet round the world. Teddy said he would send it off anyway, gleefully remarking that he already had enough money to get the squadron as far as the Pacific. If the Senators wanted to be blamed for keeping 16 U.S. battleships out there forever, that was their lookout...
...there were the Rude Ones who'd slam down the phone with a snarl that usually had to do with my being just like all the others. Now I'd heard about "Cliffie bitches." I kept a lookout for them vowing to be different. But here I was fitting right into the groove--lacking the experience then to know it as a groove carefully carved...
...else, they pointedly observed, has the resources to get a man out of Japan and smuggle him past South Korean coast guards on the lookout for Communist infiltrators from the north...