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...insult to injury, France insists on physical possession of most of its gold. Other nations are content to leave most of their holdings in the New York Federal Reserve Bank's airtight vault 85 ft. below Liberty Street in lower Manhattan. There, gold ingots worth about $12.9 billion are stored-as against the $10.1 billion worth residing in the famed U.S. Bullion Depository at Fort Knox...
...year history. Of their first 14 games, they had won only three-and were only percentage points out of last place, 9 games behind the league-leading Baltimore Orioles. Yankee hitters were batting an embarrassing .210. Yankee pitchers had an unspectacular 3.82 earned-run average. And that once airtight Yankee defense had committed 16 errors...
...rare old felon in the very first scene. The night is dark; Frobe approaches a woman seated alone on a bus at a rest stop somewhere between Nice and Grasse, drags her into a small park and stabs her. The victim is his wife, and Frobe has such an airtight alibi that the murder case would be swiftly closed except for a rich young stranger (Maurice Ronet), who is interested in uxoricide for its instructional value. Caught between a neurotic wife who won't give him a pleasant word or a divorce and a delectable mistress (Marina Vlady...
...will be reduced to as little as a thousandth of what is allowed in clean rooms. At the same time, all of Voyager's exposed surfaces will be decontaminated with ethylene oxide, a colorless gas that is deadly to microorganisms. Finally, the spacecraft will be placed in an airtight, teacup-shaped canister and baked in a giant oven for as long as 53 hours at a temperature of 257° F.-enough heat exposure to kill even the organisms that live within the solid metals and other materials used in spacecraft construction...
...habeas corpus hearing, the prosecution produced a stewardess who identified Mel as having been a passenger on the plane from Houston, and an ex-convict who said the pair had offered him $10,000 to murder Mossier. But to Circuit Court Judge Harvie DuVal, the case was not yet airtight: "The testimony I have heard and read does not meet the evidence requirements." Judge DuVal duly freed the defendants on $50,000 bonds. While Mel discreetly headed for Atlanta, Candace emerged from jail as other inmates showered her with hearty obscenities. Smiling and blowing kisses, the irrepressible widow jounced...