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Lifting It Up. Discoverer XIII was aimed at a patch of Pacific Ocean 60 miles by 200 miles in size. It hit its target with an accuracy that proved embarrassing to the Air Force: C-119 planes assigned to pluck the capsule from the air with grapples were saturated with radio signals from directly overhead, could not get a fix on its position...
...body of a five-year-old girl was found strangled in a weed patch near suburban Wheeling. The story was frontpage news in all four Chicago papers, as it would be in most cities; but in Chicago, for days afterward, the story shoved aside everything else...
...high school, younger and thinner than most of his classmates, and usually alone, he found a haven inside an ROTC uniform, wore it every day everywhere-always with field jacket, so that no one could see from the shoulder patch that he was not a real soldier. He won a marksmanship trophy and the American Legion's Americanism Award, and he became so gung-ho that he tried to get into World War II at 16, lied about his age and spent two weeks in uniform before his mother took him home. Noting all this, Harry Sahl began pondering...
...told Dr. Pritchard that the pots belonged to the middle Bronze Age well before Joshua and the Israelites invaded the Holy Land about 1200 B.C. Dr. Pritchard not only bought the pots but hired the woman as his "consultant." After a little coaxing she took him to her tomato patch on top of the mound, showed him a hole leading to a rifled Bronze Age tomb. More coaxing persuaded her to probe with an iron rod (a traditional tool of grave robbers) and show the archaeologist a series of circular stones covering more tombs...
...Until Tiros, the story of what happens overhead had been a matter of educated guesswork, a smattering of facts well-larded with interpolation. Only a few areas (Europe, parts of the U.S., Japan) have tight networks of weather observation posts, and even these can only monitor a relatively small patch of weather. A ground observer can see cloud effects about five miles away. If he has radar, he can report heavy rain at a somewhat greater distance; even aircraft at 45,000 ft. can see only 150 miles. Between the observers are wide-open spaces big enough to hold whole...