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During a study of air pollution in 1968, two researchers using an electron microscope at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell, England spotted strange polyhedron-shaped particles, each only .00002 inches across. Uncertain whether they were looking at a new form of life or merely a speck of soot, the scientists spent a year trying to identify the airborne organisms. They enlisted the aid of a dozen outside research institutes. Last November, still unable to identify their discovery, they described it in a paper published in Nature, and asked the world's biological community to help solve...
...There's a revolution going on in the world, if you look, you can't miss it. There are 200 million people in the U.S.A. and they're only a tiny speck before the specter of world revolution...
Right behind Robb was teammate Bill Speck, who finished fifth in the three-way freshman meet last Fall, and then Ron Wayne of U Mass. But as coach McCurdy had hoped, a group of Crimson runners were right after them. John Heyburn. Tom Spengler and captain Keith Colburn finished fifth throngh seventh...
Newspaper eras, like political eras, depend on the men who make them. And Harry Romanoff, 73, who retired in June as an editor of Chicago's American after more than 40 years, was quite a man. His reporters tell, for instance, the time in 1966 when Richard Speck was accused of murdering eight nurses (missing only Corazon Amurao, a Filipina), Romy assumed an accent and began phoning around town as the Philippine consul. For a follow-up story, Romy decided to dig up details of the accused man's marriage and troubled early life. He got the phone...
...Hornet, 950 miles southwest of Hawaii, hundreds of crewmen, reporters, cameramen and VIP guests anxiously scanned the pre-dawn skies. At 5:41 a.m., shouts of "There it is! There it is!" rose from the aircraft carrier's huge flight deck. For a split second, a tiny orange speck, no brighter than a faint shooting star, shone against the thick, purplish clouds. Apollo 11 had come home; now it was streaking through the earth's familiar atmosphere after completing the most momentous journey in man's history. Two of the three human beings aboard the returning spacecraft...