Word: vernon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dramatic Drop. Meantime, CORE has been almost buried by the black-power struggle and its own intransigence. Supported mainly by contributions from whites, the majority of them Jews, CORE experienced a dramatic drop in income after a Mount Vernon, N.Y., CORE official said in a speech that Hitler's big mistake was that he had not killed more Jews. More contributors dropped out when CORE embraced black power early this summer, and so did the whites who had helped run CORE; there are now no whites in the organization's hierarchy. CORE's income is running...
...Chick's Heartbeat. NASA Consultant Quentin L. Hartwig reported a fascinating example of the application of space research to earth-bound medicine. To record the impact of a speck of interplanetary dust on a man or vehicle in space, Engineer Vernon Rogallo devised an instrument so sensitive that it registered the force of a single grain of salt dropped less than one-half of an inch. Then, at the NASA Ames research center in California, Rogallo overheard a cafeteria conversation between two biologists: How could they record the heartbeat of a six-day-old chick embryo without piercing...
...warm July afternoon in 1964, off-duty New York City Policeman Samuel Lasky heard a noise outside his apartment door in suburban Mount Vernon. Two strangers were tiptoeing down the hall. Lasky hurriedly grabbed his pistol and managed to collar one, John F. Peters, who protested that he was merely visiting a married girl friend in the building. Not impressed, Lasky frisked Peters and felt something that "could have been a knife." What Lasky actually found was an envelope containing burglar's tools-for possession of which Peters was duly convicted...
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EMIL D. CRISCITIELLO Mt. Vernon...