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Bernie Carbo (33 RBI's) then hit a grounder to Rod Carew, whose fielding is as weak as his hitting is good. He made a poor throw to home and Cooper scored with Evans moving to third. Rico Petrocelli hit another sacrifice...
...into the soil. Some experiments conducted on cores taken from layers of soil, rock and ice that had been laid down between 10,000 and 1 million years ago produced startling results. Several samples taken from the Ross Island core-one from a depth of 1,260 ft. -contained rod-shaped bacteria of a type not encountered in previous testing. Another, brought up in an area called New Harbor from a depth of 280 ft., carried club-shaped microbes...
...remove sections containing the bacteria. Their precautions produced an unexpected side effect. When they examined chips from the Ross Island core under a microscope, they found that microbes were moving around. "We may have heat-shocked them out of dormancy," says Cameron. Placed in a nutrient broth, the rod-shaped bacteria continued to move about. The club-shaped organisms proved even more responsive. On a culture plate, they reproduced and set up colonies that looked to Cameron like "inactive volcanoes...
...California, and later on for the Klondike in Alaska, right? Well, I head for certain territory, the territory being that person, whoever he is. He may be interesting, may have some gold in his life. So you find the place, the prospector does, by virtue of some divining rod or some hunch. That's how I find the person. Then he, the prospector, starts digging, digging, digging deep into the earth. I don't dig so much as just start digging operations in which the person is talking--in that sense, digging, into his life. Now finally, the prospector finds...
Jacques Cousteau: Blizzard at Hope Bay. The explorer almost gets stranded in this one, but virtue triumphs in the end. Rod Serling narrates. Ch. 4, 8:30 p.m. 1 hour...