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December weather is cold and blustery around Scotland's Loch Ness, so the story could hardly have been concocted to draw tourists. Even more remarkable, it was written by capable scientists and published in the respectable British journal, New Scientist. Thus it was hard to scoff last week at the latest monster tale. This time, after centuries of myth, speculation and hoax, there was apparently scientific evidence that some kind of large creature-or creatures-may indeed roam the depths of Loch Ness...
Sonar Search. The startling observation was made by a University of Birmingham team armed with a modern monster detector: sophisticated sonar equipment. Setting up operations on a Loch Ness pier, the scientists projected a beam of high-frequency sound waves through the water. During one 13-min. period, the sonar echoes defined large moving objects that Birmingham Electrical Engineer D. Gordon Tucker says were "clearly" made by animals...
...sonar evidence gives new life to the Loch Ness legend, which has been tracked back as far as a 6th century biography of St. Columba. The work attributes "the driving away of a certain water monster by prayer" to the holy man, who was walking near the lake...
Since 1962, an organization named The Loch Ness Phenomena Investigation Bureau Ltd. has been analyzing all monster sightings. Its volunteer members have shot pictures of monsterlike objects from seven lakeside camera stations. The most famous Loch Ness photograph, taken by a touring surgeon in 1934, shows a long-necked creature making waves in the lake...
...motivated or wrong - usually both. To back that up, he has compiled 407 pages of quotations and anecdotes, mostly from newspapers, magazines, books and anonymous journalists and politicians. For example, as evidence that Kennedy was not far enough left on an issue, he quotes Ramparts. To bear wit ness that Kennedy was not far enough right, he cites William Buckley's Na tional Review. Was Bobby too hostile to the automobile industry? A Pontiac, Mich., publisher is the judge. Was the Cuban missile crisis a defeat for the Kennedys? Nikita Khrushchev says so. Any source dissatisfied with Kennedy...