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...months. Shuttling freely into Angola from Congolese bases across the 400-mile northern border, wily terrorist bands have replaced machetes and canhangulas, their crude, homemade muzzle-loaders, with Belgian Mausers, U.S. carbines and Czech machine guns. And, unlike Portugal's 50,000-man expeditionary force, they know every inch of the terrain. Says a longtime white administrator: "It would take 100,000 men to clean up the Triangle...
...public tribute to a private company. The colors are the state's way of honoring the 125th anniversary of Moline's Deere & Co., whose distinctive green and yellow colors have for years identified its tractors, farm machinery and, lately, its light industrial equipment. After all, almost every inch of Illinois was plowed, furrowed, dug or smoothed at one time or another by some piece of Deere machinery. Since Blacksmith John Deere perfected the first steel plow in 1837-the plow that broke the plains-Deere has become the leading seller of farm equipment...
Although radio astronomers have the most reason for concern, the optical observers are also worried. William Liller, a member of the NAS watchdog group and Professor of Astronomy, has attempted to determine the optical brightness of the copper cloud with the Harvard 61-inch telescope. So far Liller has had no success, but other astronomers have photographed the cloud and have shown that it is not unduly bright...
Lemon Shape. The sphere itself must be machined with incredible accuracy: no more than five millionths of an inch of error can be tolerated. When it is not spinning, the sphere is not exactly spherical; it is slightly prolate (lemon-shaped), with its equatorial radius (where the metal is thickest) .000226 in. shorter than the polar radius. When it is spinning at 30,000 r.p.m., though, centrifugal force makes the equator bulge just enough to form a perfect sphere...
...would inform this witness that he is not to insult me in his answers. If he does, I will take his life on the spot." The chairman, who was naturally carrying a revolver, sympathized. "I watched the motion of [the witness'] right arm, and had it moved one inch, he had died on the spot. This was my determination...