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...sons still live. Since then, he has led 18 missions against North Viet Nam-including three last week. His $2,500,000 Thunderchief fighter-bomber is a remarkable instrument of warfare. It can carry twelve 750-lb. bombs or eight pods of 19 rockets each, and has a six-barrel, 20-mm. cannon that can fire 4,000 rounds per minute. Loaded, it weighs 48,400 Ibs., and its top speed exceeds 1,660 m.p.h. Its cockpit is a bewildering jungle of more than 75 switches, toggles and levers...
...somehow manages to retain a passable falsetto. Later favored by the nobility, the false capon cuckolds his patrons. He reveals his secret to one elegant lady (Anouk Aimée) while he helps her undress. Another (Barbara Steele) learns the truth when the two snuggle into a barrel used as a duck blind. A third (Sandra Milo) gets the news under a cape while performing at a fashionable impromptu. Her husband applauds...
...whole program can become totally discredited, If too many politicians grab hold of it, it becomes nothing more than a big pork-barrel." The possibility of failure also Moot: "There is an immediate danger of 'Overpromise.'" It would be more than demoralizing, he says, "to work in employment programs with 100 kids and then be able to place only 10 per cent of them jobs...
...than Goldwater votes, Rusher answered, "Given all the pressures to defect, I think the 27 million had an unusually high proportion of the gold as opposed to the dross, contrary to Hugh Scott." He smiled, pleased with the pun, and continued, "They would have sunk their hands on a barrel of rattlesnakes to pull the Goldwater lever...
...Barrels & Breeding. Many of the opportunities are new; others have been around but are just being discovered by the mass of speculators. Investment in Scotch whisky, once highly specialized, has become so widespread that the Securities and Exchange Commission recently announced that it will move to impose controls on it. Investors buy the raw whisky by the barrel, wait while it ages for three years or longer, often collect a 100% profit when it is finally sold to bottlers. For $1,000, those who want to be angels can buy a 1% share in the North American rights...