No. 432: "Virginia Dare"
Thousands of people want to do something in Prince William County, Va., this summer, but publisher Dean Regan laments, "It's getting harder and harder to find a [place] that's big enough and rural enough." To do what?
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Wednesday's Question (No. 431)—"Impressed?":
A letter in the journal Nature asserts that in the post-Sputnik malaise of 1958, the Air Force put physicist Leonard Reiffel in charge of a team of 10 people, including Carl Sagan, with this mission: Bolster national confidence and "impress the world with the prowess of the United States." How?
"And, lo, Sharon Stone was born."—Michael Mannella
"Find a new subatomic particle. While forming a human pyramid."—Francis Heaney
" 'Controlled nuclear detonations' to clear menacing brush near Los Alamos research facilities."—Roger Hipp
"They were to demonstrate the superiority of capitalism by 1) finding intelligent life from other planets, then 2) successfully selling it whole life insurance, with a rider excluding travel-related mishaps."—Greg Diamond
"JFK nails Marilyn Monroe. Who wouldn't be impressed with prowess like that?"—Ann Gavaghan (Andrew Puzzio had a similar answer.)
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