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...Brien has also made effective use of the pressures that can be brought to bear on Congressmen by the liberal lobbies that abound in Washington-notably that of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., under its own able legislative man, Andy Biemiller. When Administration legislative interests coincide with those of a particular lobbying group, O'Brien makes certain that one of his staffmen compares notes and coordinates efforts with the lobbyists. Intelligence is exchanged, a list is made of Congressmen whose votes might be swayed, and high-tempo lobbying techniques, ranging from direct-mail campaigns to carefully arranged visits from constituents...
...most active G.A. chapters are in areas where gambling is legal and race tracks abound; Los Angeles has six G.A. chapters. New York four. Most fertile city for prospective G.A. members is Las Vegas. The casino managers are unconcerned about the inroads the organization might make; none has ever been known to refer a steady loser to the local G.A. chapter. "G.A.'s a stupid organization," says one Vegasite. "Imagine being against gambling in this town." But Onetime...
...four miles of water. Like other deep ocean trenches, it is believed to be a place where the earth's crust is sinking into the interior, perhaps carried down by slow, enormous currents in the plastic mantle. Since trenches are characteristic of the Pacific Ocean, where they abound, some geophysicists consider the Puerto Rico Trench a part of the Pacific that has bulged into the Atlantic between North and South America. Another bit of bulging Pacific may be the trench-bordered Scotia Sea south of South America...
...Skeptics abound who doubt that the Nike Zeus system will work well enough to justify its cost (nearly $900 million). They point out that a station can be saturated by coveys of attacking missiles arriving at the same instant. A simpler enemy stunt, the critics say, would be to make a single missile spew out electronic decoys that would look like warheads to the discrimination radar. Then most of the defending rockets that roared into space would waste their nuclear thunder...
Redbricks abound in able professors, from Leeds's noted Chemist Frederick Dainton to Swansea's Novelist Kingsley (Lucky Jim) Amis. But not all redbrick dons are happy with their "exile" from cozy Oxbridge. Novelist Amis himself is shifting soon to Cambridge. Says Nobel Prizewinner Cecil Frank Powell, head of Bristol's topnotch (cosmic rays) physics department: "We've got Cambridge licked in our department-but Cambridge nevertheless has something we can never match...