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...wire-mesh fence surrounding the police station. The crowd's mood was ugly, and 130 police reinforcements, supported by four Saracen armored cars, were rushed in. Sabre jets and Harvard Trainers zoomed within a hundred feet of the ground, buzzing the crowd in an attempt to scatter it. The Africans responded by hurling stones, which rattled harmlessly off the armored cars and into the police compound, stnk-ing three policemen...
Colin Wilson likes to go on intellectual safaris, bag a great book and scatter the author's thoughts among the simple natives. His favorite hunting ground is Shawland, where he stalks the Abominable Superman, and he never tires of preaching the first Shavian commandment, which can be read backward or forward: God is the Life Force-the Life Force...
...will open in Jefferson City next week, and his backers are working to see that the movement will then spread out nationally. In Columbia, 600 students from the University of Missouri, Christian and Stephens Colleges formed the first "Youth for Symington" club, planned to spread the word when they scatter to their homes in 28 states during the Christmas holidays...
...January 1961, the new station will operate on a very low frequency band (14 to 30 kilocycles), sending out radio waves up to one mile long audible to surface ships and shore stations around the world. It may be utilized experimentally to try out the new Tepee scatter-back system for detecting missile firings in Russia. But specifically, it should be capable of sending orders to subs operating under the surface of the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans. The Navy says that the signals will reach "deep down." Best estimate is that they will penetrate more than...
...recover from corrective surgery until he was twelve. But Larry grimly pitched by the hour to Brother Norm (now a third-string catcher for the Dodgers), eventually developed enough speed to be a star at Fairfax High School. Signed by the Dodgers, Sherry looked like just another scatter-armed fireballer, once walked 15 men in three innings, had one losing season after another as he wandered through the lower reaches of the minors (Santa Barbara, Great Falls, Mont., Newport News...