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Last week, for example, a White House aide, obviously reflecting his boss's views, confided to newsmen that Goldwater and Nelson Rockefeller will knock each other off, opening the way for Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton or, less likely, Michigan's Governor George Romney...
Minuteman silos, sunk 80 feet deep in the earth, are "hardened" by thick concrete walls. About 150 such silos, holding a Minuteman apiece, are dispersed over hundreds of miles of rugged western U.S. terrain. McNamara argued that no single Soviet missile-no matter how big-could be expected to knock out more than two silos at once. Less reassuring is the fact that the Minutemen's hardened sites have never been tested definitively by nuclear explosion effects, and McNamara admitted there are "uncertainties" in the design. But if the silos did survive the crushing pressures and ground fires...
Time was when the bank robber was the prince of professional criminals. But nowadays, it seems, the rankest amateurs can knock over a bank-and a remarkable number of them are trying it. In 1932, the bank-heisting heyday of John Dillinger and his ilk, there were only 606 bank robberies in the U.S. Last year the FBI reported a record number of 1,250, and the pace is even faster...
...knock on the door came shortly after midnight, but Brazilian Journalist Helio Fernandes was not surprised to find the three army officers standing in the hall. "You are under arrest," said the captain in charge. Fernandes asked to see the warrant. The captain's only reply was: "This is the army...
...Rest. Pocketing a $13,000 check that ran his season's earnings to $75,140-second only to Arnold Palmer's record $85,955-Nicklaus suggested that the tour's top golfers should knock off for two months each year to rest: "When you play twelve months, the game is no longer a pleasure; it's a nerve-racking grind." He then ambled off to set his sights on the next big payday: the $50,000 top prize in the World Series of Golf this September, a tournament that pits the winners of the Masters...