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What was iron doing in cold space many million miles away from the nearest star? Struve concluded that both stars, Antares and Companion, must be surrounded by a vast swarm, of meteors, like the iron-nickel meteors which bombard the earth. Apparently they shoot through an enormous region 50,000 times as wide as the diameter of the sun (865,000 miles). They may be attracted mainly by the powerful gravitation of massive Antares. But they show up on Astronomer Struve's spectroscope because intense ultraviolet rays from the hot, blue Companion make them glow with telltale light...
...cells have hidden capabilities. Thousands of them will be grazing peacefully, paying no attention to one another. Then a few will drift together, forming a little clump. All the amoebae for microns* around stop their feeding and dividing. Like city people running to the scene of an accident, they swarm toward the growing center (see cut). Some join end to end and stream in gay little chains. By thousands and tens of thousands they pile up in a heap...
High Gear. Thus encouraged, Tom Dewey was acting more like a candidate all the time. The whimsy that he was on a vacation had pretty well evaporated. Well covered by photographers, he dashed off autographs for a swarm, of half-clad Sapulpan moppets, who descended on the home of Mrs. Dewey's parents (see cut). Polishing up his grass-roots tactics, he stopped to admire a local farmer's improvised hay bale loader, commented knowingly that it was just what he needed on his own Pawling, N.Y. farm. By the time the Deweys moved on to Kansas City...
...Manhattan safe deposit box together with some government bonds. Planning to visit the vault some day with a Geiger counter to see whether the fragments are still radioactive, Leonard is prepared for anything - even the possibility of seeing remnants of his bonds fly out of the box like a swarm of moths...
Until last November, even such a classified ad would hardly have lured a vice-presidential candidate to the Democratic ticket for 1948. But by last week, with Democratic hopes for victory still on the post-election rebound, headquarters could count on a swarm of prospects, who well remembered how Harry Truman himself had reached the White House...