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Similarities. The plane and its final explosion blew out a smoldering crater 50 ft. wide and 25 ft. deep. Civil Aeronautics Board crash specialists found empty, neatly laced shoes, a stray airmail letter, a bloodstained blouse, a prayer book lying open at the Litany of the Saints ("Lord have mercy on us . . ."). On the branches of nearby trees were towels and shirts, a child's sunsuit, some underwear-all hanging lifelessly amid the grey, acrid smoke that curled up from the crater for hours afterward...
...earth-moon system. But space far from any planet is still unexplored. This outer space is presumably traversed by vast clouds of material shot out of the sun, and they may behave differently when not near a planet. Cosmic rays and micrometeorites may behave differently, too. There may be stray magnetic fields wandering free through empty space. The information Pioneer V can report about all these things will be essential when, years hence, man himself ventures on voyages between the planets...
Patrolman Philip Colwell was making a routine check of the treatment and disposal of stray dogs in New Haven when he found that the numbers did not jibe. Yale University's School of Medicine had bought as many as 1,700 dogs for research in a single year, all from nearby towns. But these communities had never reported having disposed of so many healthy strays in this manner. Colwell went off on a hot scent that led him, with a bloodhound assist from Connecticut state police, to the biggest dognapping scandal in the state's history. Last week...
...Ceccarelli bought dogs from other wardens (again at $2-$3), sold them to Yale for $7. Accused as primary suppliers in this neat racket were the dog wardens in surrounding towns. Warrants were out against eight of them, with more expected. Wardens get a uniform $4 fee for each stray dog they destroy. Instead of killing the animals, say the police, the wardens sold them to Iannucci or Ceccarelli, reported them destroyed, and collected their fees from the towns-hence the charge of fraud by a public officer...
Shoot at Sight. Imperial County's problem is that, although its antirabies precautions have long matched the U.S. average, it faces an abnormal hazard-an estimated 25,000 stray dogs across the border in Mexicali (pop. 175,000), capital of Baja California Norte, Mexico's newest state. An eight-mile fence, 8-ft. high, between Calexico and Mexicali, does not keep the beasts out, mainly because they trot through the border control post alongside cars...