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...Nyloned models setting forth against the Saxons; another version of the battle showed the Norman warriors armed with Desoutter Power Tools. Heinz offered its soup buyers a chance to enter an archery contest in which the first 1,066 winners would be rewarded with Kenwood Chef food mixers and Arrow shirts. And, in ads boosting its Neo-Medrone Acne Lotion, the Upjohn pharmaceutical company captioned a drawing of William on horseback as follows: "Who conquered William the Conqueror? No one. But he still worried a lot. About his acne. It was unconquerable...
...plywood, steel and aluminum mock-up of the 1,850-m.p.h. SST. Boeing's SST, to say the least, is differ ent. Now 306 ft. long, or twice the length of a present-day 707, it will carry up to 350 passengers, shoot them as swiftly as an arrow from continent to continent. The bigger plane also means more fuel capacity and greater range. The delta wing sweeps back 30° for a 186-m.p.h. takeoff, folds to 42° for subsonic flight, and comes within kissing distance of the fuselage at a projectile-like 72° angle...
BATMAN (ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.).*Art Carney is first out of the gate as guest star, playing that robbin' hood, the Archer, in "Shoot a Crooked Arrow...
...Carronade was equipped with a fire-control computer, and it was soon beyond repair, owing to a lack of spare parts. Lieut. Commander Roy E. McCoy, 38, who runs the division from his Empire desk aboard the Carronade, quickly jury-rigged an alternative system, known as the "bow and arrow" method. Spotters ashore send target coordinates to the ships' Combat Information Centers, where men with aluminum ballistic slide rules (copied from a cardboard original found aboard one of the ships) swiftly tot up the deflection, angle-bearing and elevation of the rocket launchers. Then, just to make sure...
...first round in 1955 when, at his suggestion, a special House subcommittee on Government information was created-with Moss as chairman. The subcommittee quietly launched an exhaustive investigation that yielded countless case histories of secretive bureaucracy. The subcommittee discovered, for instance, that a bow-and-arrow weapon devised by a Pentagon civilian employee during World War II had proved useless-but by 1958 was still classed as a military secret. Moss forced many agencies to discard meaningless security precautions and marshaled bipartisan support for revision of the 1946 law that permits federal officials to clam up merely by decreeing that...