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Then came the final scene: Jean Harris, primly clad in a suede jacket and brown skirt, her hair held back by a tortoise shell band, was led in, staring straight ahead. Each day of the ordeal seemed to have shriveled her a bit more. The jurors, stone faced and grim, did not look at her, seated at the defense table, as they filed in. "I understand the jurors have arrived at a verdict," said Judge Leggett. Von Glahn rose and nodded yes. The clerk asked: "How do you find the defendant, Jean Harris, on the first count of second-degree...
Columbia's launch, originally scheduled for March 1979, was delayed in part for replacement of thousands of heat-resistant tiles, which are attached to its aluminum shell to keep the shuttle from burning up on reentry. It has also been plagued by trouble in its complex engines, which burn fuel at 6,000° C, hotter than the boiling point of most metals. The engines deliver a thrust of more than 1 million Ibs. (roughly the power output of 23 Hoover Dams). They pack three times more power for their weight than the J-2 engines that bore...
...VALUE OF HARVARD STOCKHOLDING IN URANIUM CORPORATIONS COMPANY VALUE Atlantic Ritchfield-ARCO-Anacona $17,465,122 Duke Power 3,323,592 Continental Oil 6,538,679 Kerr McGee 1,645,230 Phillips Petroleum 8,996,703 Exxon 35,442,488 Gulf Oil 7,126,660 Mobil 18,360,622 Shell Oil 1,234,631 SOCAL 20,912,364 Virginia Electric...
...part of its effort to make SALT II politically palatable, the Carter Administration ordered the development of the mobile MX, a ten-warhead successor to the three-warhead Minuteman, which would move around in a giant shell game to foil Soviet targeting. The trouble with MX is its mobile-basing mode. The system is hugely expensive (possibly as much as $100 billion) and terribly destructive of both the natural and social environment in which it would exist. More troublesome still are its military ramifications. If the U.S. goes ahead with a mobile MX, the Soviets may try to disguise...
...stand still," he recalls in this extraordinary book of prose and picture recollections. "Texture could be retained despite sudden, violent movement." The book includes a fair number of famous Mili pictures doing just that: his own version of Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase; the 37-mm cannon shell stopped at one-millionth of a second as it leaves the nose of a fighter plane; Pitcher Carl Hubbell's arm and hand caught in the act of committing a knuckle ball; Ballerina Nora Kaye transformed into a tornado of multiple images during a pas de bourr...