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...outspoken foe of nuclear bomb tests was in excellent condition but excited when a searcher led him from his sea-cliff perch overlooking the Pacific Ocean. He had started out for a walk Saturday morning from his nearby two-room cabin and followed a deer trail until he became lost
...many a father. Science Materials Center offers a high-priced ($18.95) digital computer circuit and demonstrates the principle of atomic theory with a Dynatron electrostatic generator ($19.95). Among the popular-science sellers: the Porter Chemical Co.'s Biocraft Biology lab (list price: $20), which includes a frog, a perch, and a crayfish pickled in formaldehyde, and the Fleet Manufacturing Co.'s Chick-U-Bator, a two-egg plastic incubator. Other eye-catchers: Margarete Steiffs stuffed frogs, starfish and turtles for children's TV seats; Boombass Co.'s one-man band mounted on a bouncing stick (list...
...Charley Halleck Day" sizzled to a close with an old-fashioned fish fry. Heading the well-wishers of Republican House Leader Halleck on his silver anniversary in Congress was touring Vice President Richard M. Nixon. At the flag-draped rostrum, facing 15,000 Hoosiers brimful of yellow perch and Republican politics, Nixon, after saluting Halleck, the crowd and the perch, said: "Now, I want to relate the international situation to this meeting we're having in Indiana." That relationship never became completely clear, but Nixon's approach and tone were in keeping with his strategy as a presidential...
...battered right arm belongs to a powerful (6 ft. 4 in., 212 Ibs.) Negro of melancholy mien named Sad Sam ("Toothpick") Jones, 33, and it is largely responsible for putting the San Francisco Giants on a tottering perch at the head of the National League. Last week Sad Sam chomped morosely on his customary toothpick and turned a sullen eye on the Philadelphia Phillies. His crackling curve ball seemed about to eviscerate righthanded batters before breaking sharply to catch an inside corner. Humming and hopping, his fast ball loosened up any Philly who dared dig in too firmly. When...
Over Chicago a bright blue light hangs in the sky, visible 400 miles away. When dawn comes the light jades out in the sunshine, and the sky station stands revealed. It is a great, saucerlike disk supported in the high, thin air by whirling helicopter blades. On its deck perch radar antennas, turning ceaselessly. It stays up month after month. It has no fuel to be exhausted; its power is beamed to it from the ground...