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...Allen Hynek, chairman of Northwestern University's astronomy department and the scientific community's most outspoken investigator of UFOs, also complains of a news blackout. To prevent the loss of what he considers "material of potential scientific value," Hynek has established an informal Blue Book project of his own at Northwestern. He is particularly anxious to get reports from trained scientific observers whose anonymity he promises to preserve (to spare them ridicule from their colleagues). Hynek insists that UFO sightings are often made by reputable observers, including scientists and technicians. Says he: "It is a gross but popular...
...past times, the area teemed with thousands of breeding gulls. Wheeling overhead, they scavenged for dead fish and refuse-and picked the beaches clean. In 1962, William C. Scharf, a biologist at Northwestern Michigan College, counted 2,500 gulls' nests on nearby Bellows Island alone. This spring he found only 300. Why? Scharf partly blames dune-buggy drivers who careen through nesting grounds, plus harmful human discards like pop-top beer-can rings, which can injure hungry gulls. But the chief reason is heavy use of chlorinated hydrocarbons: DDT and its chemical cousins, dieldrin and chlordane...
...religion stories profound "The movement," he says, "is amorphous, evasive, going on everywhere and nowhere." To sample it, he visited young evangelists and their followings in Michigan, Indiana and upstate New York. Ostling brings wide experience to his beat. He has a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University and another in religion from George Washington University. Before joining TIME in 1969, he was on the staff of Christianity Today for four years...
Geologists had long known that northwestern Australia contained mountains of ore, but until recently they lacked the technology required for extracting it: chiefly, automated tools and, to make life bearable for the miners, air conditioning. The present boom can be traced largely to the vision of one remarkable man, Charles Court, a Perth accountant turned politician who served as Western Australia's Minister for Industrial Development from 1960 until this year. "We must develop our great empty spaces," Court said, "before we can say we really own Australia...
VERNON FORD, 24, has not altered his goals much either. A basketball player and leader of black students at Northwestern, he aimed to use his education as a lever to help blacks. While teaching and counseling at an experimental "free" school for high school dropouts in his old neighborhood, Chicago's West Side, he earned an M.A. in sociology at Northwestern. But he soon decided that teaching and sociology by themselves did not help kids expelled from school because "they didn't have the power to holler" or kids who got into trouble with the law for being out late...