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February 8--Another snowstorm, maroon this time, somewhat forestalls the inevitable wave of criticism. Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci pays a visit to Bok to express the city's concern over possible nuclear or chemical research causing the rainbow snows. Bok promises to investigate and appoints Matthew Meselson, professor of Chemistry, famous for coming up with a reason for "Yellow rain," to look into the matter...
February 24--Green snow falls. Meselson promises that if he can't find a way to half the phenomenon, he will direct his efforts toward coordinating it better with the appropriate occasions. "If this were St. Patrick's Day, no one would be worried--you'd think it was cute," he says...
March 10--Meselson, after weeks of poring over snow samples, declares that the source of the coloration is not a Harvard chem lab at all but The Corn Popper on Mt. Auburn St., whose "secret process" for flavoring popcorn strawberry, cinnamon and blueberry involves releasing puffs of food coloring, cinnamon and blueberry involves releasing puffs of food coloring into the atmosphere. In developing a new line, "We got a little out of control, I guess," apologizes the store owner...
...Meselson: Well, intelligence data doesn't have to be classified, I'd go beyond that and say this; these standards of evidence that are shown by the way in which the government has dealt with the non-classified data are so well known that you would have every reason not to expect the classified material to be reliable...
...Meselson: It wouldn't have been done so incompetently if it were fabricated...