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...four crew members on an odyssey of terror that ended 29 hours later in Havana. Everybody lost something on the flight: the copilot was wounded, the passengers were badly shaken, Southern Airways may be financially crippled by the ransom it paid, the FBI has been damned for a trigger-happy performance and the hijackers are said to be condemned to spend the rest of their lives in 4-by-5-by-5-ft. cells in Fidel Castro's Cuba. On top of all that, the painful problem of prevention still begs for solution...
...announcement that it planned to test a multimegaton nuclear device under the Aleutian island of Amchitka last November touched off a shock wave of protest. Some critics charged that the explosion of an H-bomb in a region that was already known to be seismically active could trigger devastating quakes and the great sea waves, known as tsunamis, that often follow them. Environmentalists made dire predictions of a wildlife massacre. Nonetheless, the test took place, and it did not cause serious tremors or lasting environmental damage. Instead, after months of careful analysis, U.S. Government scientists now report that the Cannikin...
Instead a bill was approved that provides for a two-to four-year "test" of three different reform schemes, but without any "trigger" mechanism to put the one that works best into effect nationwide. The welfare "mess" thus perpetuated, the Senate moved on to pass an $ 18.5 billion welfare and Social Security bill. If signed into law by Nixon, the measure will increase Social Security taxes by 8%, expand both the number of people and services covered by Medicare, and permit older workers to earn almost twice as much-$3,000, compared with the present $1,680 -without loss...
Those two plays sum up Namath's vital assets on the field: a bazooka arm, a trigger-quick release and an almost supernatural ability to read complex defenses in a matter of microseconds. As Namath explained to TIME Correspondent Marsh Clark last week: "Unless I have some sort of mental lapse, I know what they're doing on the defense every time." In the instruction booklet he is now writing on the art of passing, he gives his older brothers much of the credit for his proficiency: "They taught me a single motion-simply throwing from your...
PALC demanded that Harvard divest itself of its Gulf stock and issue a public statement condemning the company. In this way, they hoped to trigger a series of similar divestitures nationwide, and force Gulf out of southern Africa...