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...Berowne actively engaged Dagliesh's help in locating the source of the letter and then resigned from public life--and later, apparently, from life in general? And, above all, why does every member of the Berowne family have an almost-too-airtight alibi on the night of the apparent suicide...
...Bernstein: "I interviewed the judges last and presented them with the evidence, and they were stunned." The courts freed hundreds of inmates, threw out 20,000 orders for jail commitment and told the county to provide attorneys for poor defendants. The computer's statistics, says Bernstein, "made our case airtight." She adds that without the machine, her work would have required up to a year of research rather than the six weeks it took...
Mission Control reminded the flight crew to close the airtight visors on their helmets...
...space, White, who made the first U.S. space walk, and Chaffee, a rookie astronaut, had been scheduled to run through a simulated Apollo launch. Suited up, they clambered into the gleaming steel cone 218 ft. above Pad 34 and hooked themselves up to life-support systems. Technicians sealed the airtight double hatch plates and pumped pure oxygen into the little chamber. The test countdown had proceeded for several hours when suddenly, over their radio link to the spacecraft, controllers heard the cry "Fire aboard the spacecraft!" followed by movements, more shouts and a sharp scream of pain. "It was horrible...
...Pentagon is asking $174 million to develop a MARV (maneuverable reentry vehicle) that could dart and weave to avoid anti- missile missiles. The disclosure of the MARV research is awkward for the Reagan Administration because it undercuts the President's argument that it is possible to build an airtight defense system. Arms-race foes naturally fear another round of nuclear one-upmanship as MIRVing is made more lethal by MARVing...