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...jetfighters, capable of speeds up to Mach 2.2 and bristling with Soviet infrared homing rockets, were plotting to shoot down President Johnson as he flew to Miami for a Democratic fund-raising dinner on Feb. 27. If they failed in that, the Cubans would try to flash in and ram the President's plane kamikaze-style...
...call for help by wire. The Model 70 in New York or Washington will listen simultaneously to the troubles of many Model 30s. When it has heard enough, it gives itself a signal that stops its own work. All the little problems of all the little computers flash through its brain in a few seconds, and the answers are distributed to the proper branch offices. Then Model 70 can return to weightier matters...
...Well-Tempered Blade. Nonetheless, fencing in the U.S. today is a fast-rising sport. Thanks to the electrified blade point, which causes a light to flash when contact is made, scoring is no longer a matter of subjective judgment. The loud cries and balletic fencing that often influenced judges has given way to rough-and-tumble dueling that demands physical conditioning as tough as any football player's. Princeton's would-be D'Artagnans start training each day with five 220-yd. laps around the gym and 15 rugged minutes of calisthenics. Then, after a 20-minute...
Like people who live near the mouth of a volcano, the citizens in the hills of Los Angeles County know that there is no end to disaster. Eventually the rainy season will drench the denuded hills with flash floods. Then the mesquite and chaparral will grow back on the hillsides. After that, the humidity will fall again...
...Pierre, as her closest friend suggests, innocently playing at a marvelous, infantile game? Or is he a passionate psychotic, as a psychiatrist implies, intent upon working through his wartime guilt (in the opening flash we see Pierre kill a girl when his plane goes out of control) by destroying Cybele? One is stupidly tempted to debate this question in evaluating the film's tragic conclusion...