Word: simpson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...showed changes in the surrounding magnetic field, scientists concluded that the spacecraft had passed within about 2,500 km (1,560 miles) of what appears to be a previously undiscovered moon* with a diameter as large as 600 km (370 miles). "The object was very close," says Physicist John Simpson of the University of Chicago. "It could be rocky or composed largely of ice. Either material will effectively block high energy particles." The moonlet, in orbit about 90,000 km (56,000 miles) above Saturn's cloud tops, was nicknamed "Pioneer rock" by the scientists, and it is being...
...suddenly muffled. After all, the flamboyant sextet is the ruling clan of that realm; they have sold some 9 million albums and made songs like Macho Man, Y.M.C.A. and In the Navy into nocturnal national anthems. Now the beat goes on, for a onetime back-up singer named Ray Simpson has been promoted to the group, joining Cowboy Randy Jones, Construction Worker David Hodo, Indian Felipe Rose, Motorcyclist Glenn Hughes and G.I. Alex Briley. Simpson came along in perfect 4/4 time: shooting has just begun on the People's first film, You Can't Stop the Music...
...music filling the air or competing with fireworks. Manhattan's Central Park was packed with almost a quarter of a million people last week as the New York Philharmonic exploded into John Philip Sousa and giant skyrockets burst above the band shell. A festival is Chicago Secretary Janice Simpson puzzling over whether she should go hear Lonnie Listen Smith at the Miller beer Jazz Stage or Muddy Waters at the Olympia beer Blues Stage, playing at almost the same time at ChicagoFest, where more than 500,000 trooped to the city's old brick and metal Navy Pier...
...state of Washington. The jury needed only six hours and 40 minutes to reach its verdict, though the trial had lasted for more than a month. The case against Bundy rested heavily on circumstantial evidence. In his 60-minute closing argument, Assistant State's Attorney Larry Simpson recalled the testimony by two dental experts that bite marks on one of the slain girls came from Bundy's teeth...
Another expert testified that Bundy's hair was "microscopically" similar to strands found in a pantyhose mask that police discovered in the rooming house where one coed was assaulted. Finally, Simpson reminded the jury, Bundy had fled from a policeman who stopped his car in Tallahassee. Said Simpson: "The defendant...