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...just sort of petered out," says Glanting, who was publicity chairman of the club back when it needed one. There is silence. The reporter writes down Glanting's remark. More silence. Glanting is finding it hard to get up steam. He has been interviewed so often that his tape heads are gummed. He can no longer recite the club motto-"Dare to be dull." Lines like "We're out of it and proud of it" and "There's nothing wrong with being an ordinary stupid guy" no longer come trippingly to his tongue...
...near the U.S. naval base at Subic Bay in the Philippines. One of their missions is to scrutinize Subic and the nearby U.S. Air Force base at Clark Field. The bases in Viet Nam give the Soviet navy what military experts call a "surge capability" its ships can steam into the Indian Ocean in one or two days, compared with the seven or more days' voyage required from Vladivostok...
...Cheers rose from the ranks of scientists and technicians packed into the Cape Canaveral control center when the word came. Millions of Americans watching on morning television breathed a sigh of relief. Those red and orange flames flaring out from beneath the Columbia space shuttle, the immense cloud of steam created by burning liquid oxygen and hydrogen that drifted out to sea were emblems of success. The long delayed final test firing of Columbia's three main engines had at last gone off without a hitch. Columbia's moment of triumph made it probable that as early...
Scrambling back with key blocks from big men Dave Coatsworth (6 ft., 7 in.) and Kevin O'Sullivan (6 ft., 5 in.), the Crimson caught up at six points, but then ran out of steam...
...notice. After all, he was a lord of the boxing rings and regularly paid fighters six-figure purses. Three weeks ago, however, the ruse unraveled. During some routine accounting work, a bank employee spotted serious irregularities in the records and sounded the alarm. Before the investigation picked up steam, both Smith and Lewis were gone. Smith's whereabouts were unknown at week's end, but TIME has learned that last Wednesday Lewis secretly turned himself in to the Los Angeles office of the FBI. Since then, he has been giving his version of what happened at the bank...