Word: arsenal
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Riggs never had a chance. Sure he's got every shot that King has, and more; he's got a whole arsenal of them. And he pulled out a few, as if to bait King into believing that he would make good his boast. But he didn't do it often enough, because King made sure he scrambled. With surprise retrieves, with drop shot touches at the net catching Riggs backcourt, with backspins zeroing off to the side pulling Riggs wide, with double placements sprawling Riggs off balance, with overheads from the baseline curving crosscourt and steady belting backhands...
This growing sense of the importance of an elitist military leadership is the strongest weapon in the Harvard Right's arsenal. The Republicans and their allies generally supported American intervention in Indochina, but they will probably softpedal that line. If the Right want to win a referendum, if they expect that Harvard's left-liberal masses will vote for something like a non-credit ROTC program, they will have to center its appeals on the allegedly ameliorating effect Harvard men will have on the military...
...overconfident. You may want to ask me if I have a game plan for Billie Jean. I don't need a game plan. I'll let her start something and I'll finish it. I have such a vast assortment of tennis weapons in my arsenal that I can handle anything she can throw at me. I'll psych her out a little bit. I'm psyching her out already, she won't admit it but I can see her coming apart at the seams already...
Iran already has an awesome arsenal. Since 1965 it has spent more than $3 billion in the U.S. and Europe on mostly sophisticated arms, including 70 Phantom F-4 jet fighters, 400 tanks, a destroyer, a couple of frigates and what is probably the biggest fleet of Hovercraft (50) in the world. But the Shah, who makes the final decision on all such equipment, wants more. Currently prepared to spend $2 billion or so a year, he has on order 100 F-5E supersonic fighters, another 100 Phantoms, 700 helicopters, 750 tanks, eight destroyers and four frigates. Last week...
...Pentagon now says that it plans to demilitarize the nerve gas starting in October. The process takes time (some will be detoxified in a special new facility at the arsenal), and therefore Denver airport cannot build its new runway before 1977. Meantime, Colorado Air Pollution Official Joe Palomba Jr. is investigating what other wonders the arsenal may have omitted from its inventory. Says he: "I do not want to be hit with any more surprises...