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...even Scrooge was mean enough to throw stones at Christmas trees. But last week in Berlin. East German Vopos pegged rocks at the twinkling colored lights strung on some 800 Christmas trees set up along the West Berlin side of the hated Wall dividing the city. The Communist policemen were poor shots-in a week of rock throwing they darkened only eight trees which were promptly replaced...
...will now re-examine the argument that a practical system can be developed for monitoring a test ban. As they check on future tests, the scientists will be helped by a network of ultrasensitive seismographs that the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey has begun to install in 65 countries strung around the globe. Officially, those seismographs are there to record the world's earthquakes, but there is no way to keep them from detecting bomb waves also...
Hundreds of thousands of colored light bulbs were strung all over the capital, and the streets were illuminated by graceful arches in the shape of giraffes, Tanganyika's national symbol. At the uhuru ceremonies in the National Stadium, massed bands serenaded Prime Minister Julius Nyerere, Great Britain's Prince Philip, and dignitaries from 65 nations...
...force the pace." Raty moved out with Story, but he soon found himself dropping behind the fleet-footed Oregon State runner. By the time the leaders had rounded the 17th green and headed for the finish line, Story had a 50-yd. lead. The rest of the field was strung out all across the golf course-with the last stragglers as much as six minutes behind. Story's winning time (19 min. 46.6 sec.) was the fifth fastest in the history of the race...
Last summer Dr. Vonnegut led an elaborate thunderstorm study near Socorro, N. Mex., where a stationary thundercloud forms almost every day above 10,300-ft Mount Withington. The scientists flew instrument-laden balloons into the handy cloud; they flew airplanes through it and over it. With a helicopter they strung thin wires between Mount Withington and neighboring peaks, and used them to inject electrical charges into clouds. Though they gathered valuable information about cloud electricity, none of their efforts made lightning strike when they wanted...