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Abbes Garcia told them: "I have an apparatus that might interest you." He produced an innocent-looking, brown overnight case covered with imitation alligator skin. Inside was a small radio transmitter designed to operate a receiver that could detonate dynamite. At this point, the testimony continued, a car drove up to the house, and in strutted Trujillo himself. He asked about Venezuela's political atmosphere and declared that "the enemy must be hit hard." For Trujillo, Betancourt is "the enemy," and Betancourt, in turn, obsessively hates Trujillo. "If we don't do it to him," Trujillo told Sanoja...
Instructors established courses for their own financial benefit, with the University, in Shaler's words, "giving by the use of the buildings and apparatus, and thus ending its countenance to the project." The catalogue is sparse and riddled with omissions...
...years, the building is only one story high. The obvious questions are: How deep does the work go underground, and what is being done inside it? Novelist Hyams went on BBC-TV to ask "why the government cannot say, 'This is being caused by a defense apparatus or a secret weapon. For your own safety, will you please put up with it?'" Instead, he complained, "There have been evasions, lyings, even a sort of shrugging of shoulders and a sneer which has made us all the more determined to find out what it is and damned well...
...probe's receiver heard it. responded dutifully by allowing a half-strength electric current to flow through the filaments of the big transmitter's tubes. After this initial warmup, the apparatus was rested for six hours to recharge the batteries...
Ready for Men. Few of the bodies that the undertakers snatch from the drink have any re-use value; they are much too beat-up. But the Air Force pays Berger to go after every fragment; it doesn't want secret apparatus lying around on the ocean bottom, where it might be retrieved by unauthorized divers. Another reason is that the hunks of an unsuccessful missile can often tell why it failed. In 1958 a rocket engine exploded and showered the water off the Cape with thousands of small pieces. One of them, which was recovered after a long...