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Some Americans may think the MX missile is a batty idea, but it is the height of orthodoxy compared with a weapons scheme described in this month's American Heritage magazine. Just after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941, a Pennsylvania dental surgeon named Lytle S. Adams hit upon the idea of arming bats with tiny incendiary bombs and letting them loose over Japan. The bomber bats would supposedly seek refuge in the eaves of Japanese houses, where their deadly cargoes-equipped with a 15-hr, timer-would explode and set off fires...
Jack Gimbel, 46, has always been proud of his family name. So almost ten years ago, when he decided to open a gift shop in Maine's Boothbay Harbor, he appropriately christened it Gimbel & Sons Country Store. Last September, though, he received a letter from Gimbel Bros. Inc., the huge New York-based department store chain, asking him to change the sign on his store or face legal action. When Gimbel refused, Gimbel Bros, store sued on the grounds that by using his family name, Jack Gimbel had "irreparably damaged" the 38-store chain and was responsible...
...keeping with the Reaganauts' generally demonological view of the Soviets, a key official of the present Administration, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Fred C. Ikle, does not rule out the possibility of a nuclear Pearl Harbor. Yet he can imagine such a thing only if future changes in the Soviet leadership produce a regime that is not as "cautious and conservative" as the current one. Meanwhile, he admits, "attention to the possibility of nuclear war by miscalculation is at least as important as to deliberate attack...
Researchers at MIT and at Cold Springs Harbor Laboratory on Long Island have reached the same results in independent experiments, Benacerraf said, adding that Cooper's conclusions have gained wide-spread acceptance among experts in the field of cancer research...
...midst of Baltimore's recently rejuvenated Inner Harbor--that city's version of Faneuil Hall--sits an outpost of youthful chicken slingers clad in the orange and black colors of Alex's little kingdom. Moored in the harbor's greenish-brown water in the moth-balled U.S.S. Constellation, cousin of Boson's Constitution, and a favorites among the hordes of tourists who swarm through the twin glass-enclosed pavilions every day in the slimmer. They gawk at the awkward old boat and munch on Alex's chicken...