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...holdup. I frequently plotted one and never carried it through." Then Miller's pleasant voice hits a note of deadly earnest. "I can think of no higher honor than of being asked by the citizens to be mayor of Chicago. I have certainly indicated an interest to a nucleus of people whom it is important to tell first before I tell the electorate...
...most of them do, they lead peaceful lives, but a plunge toward the center of the solar system is a wild adventure. As a comet approaches the sun, its surface is warmed by the strengthening sunlight. Layer after layer, the ices turn into gas. Soon the nucleus is surrounded by a rapidly growing cloud, of gas and dust boiled out of the solid nucleus. This cloud, the comet's head, may be many thousands of miles in diameter. It is so transparent that stars show through it plainly...
Actually, the team contained a nucleus of consistent performers who could be counted on for big points in every meet. Two-miler Pete Reider, captain Dick Wharton, Jim Cairns, record-holder in both the 600 and the 1000, and Harpel, all seniors but Reider, had been the big point producers for three years...
...addition to this nucleus, there were sunsung heroes: Sandy Dodge in the dash, Williams in the mile, Dave Norris in the two-mile, Dave Spinney, Bill Thompson, and Al Gordon in the two-mile relay, and Mike Robertson, who later suffered a gashed leg in a losing cause as lead-off man for the mile relay team. French Anderson, before and after his injury, proved one of the best middle distance runners in the league...
...again rewarded, this time for his work on peaceful use of the atom and his, promotion of international cooperation among scientists. Nuclear Physicist Bohr, the founding nucleus of Denmark's famed Institute of Theoretical Physics, was chosen by Atoms for Peace Awards, financed by the Ford Motor Company Fund, to receive its first annual prize: $75,000 and a gold medal...