Harvard's Museum of Mineralogy gave the lie yesterday to a group of ERA workers at Salisbury Beach who claimed that they had escaped death from the skies by the merest chance.
The ERA men claimed that a meteor descended on the beach, missing them by inches, and burying itself in the sand. For several days they charged admission to see the rarity, but their profitmaking was cut short when the stone was sent to Harvard to be analyzed. Experts were puzzled at first, but their bewilderment was short-lived. The "meteor" was nothing more than a clinker from a furnace.
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