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...high fences: the first keeps out stray animals, the second needs only the slightest touch to set off a cacophony of alarms. Just beyond them is a dog run, where 247 German shepherds already prowl sectors of the border. The escapee may also stumble over wires rigged to trigger flares...
Even after all these years, Eddie Rickenbacker, 77, the World War I flying ace, still has the itchiest trigger finger in the West. Latest target: hippies. "I love 'em like a rattlesnake," Cap'n Eddie said at a National Press Club luncheon in Washington. "If I had my way I'd give draft-card burners a good lashing and a good haircut; I would give beatniks the same, and get a good old-fashioned horse-curry brush and give 'em a good bang. I'd put these odds and ends out in front in Viet...
...surprisingly, Mstislav V. Keldysh, president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, had little to say about the Soviet space spectacular at a press conference that took place while the docking was achieved. Instead, he commented on suggestions by the U.S., which has already performed manned dockings and plans to trigger off the maiden launching of giant Saturn 5 this week, that the two countries cooperate. "This is a very serious question," Keldysh said. "We have received no invitation, but I think this could be discussed...
...wind. About 5 m.p.h., they decided. The rifleman adjusted his sight. Slowly he stretched out into a prone firing position; he rested his rifle barrel on his helmet and sighted through the scope, allowing just enough Kentucky windage to compensate for the breeze. Then he began the gentle, steady trigger pull of the expert marksman. The exact moment of firing came as a surprise-which it often does when a good rifleman has squeezed off a proper shot...
...underground army at the time of the British mandate, Rabin also served as a British commando behind Vichy French lines in World War II. As Israeli chief of staff for the past four years, he developed a highly motivated officer corps, modernized the tank force, and maintained a hair-trigger state of readiness. Last week Eshkol escalated his campaign a bit further by designating Rabin the new Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Eshkol seems to be grooming Rabin for appointment to the Defense Ministry. Then, during the campaign, he will have on his side a popular hero who can offset...