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EVER SINCE JULY, the United States Army has been trying to get the Pershing II missile into the air. In its first test, the missile blew up. In the next two tests, it didn't leave the launch pad. Last week, to the inestimable pleasure--and relief--of the Army officials watching Pershing's latest test, the thing actually flew. Unfortunately, grumbled an Army spokesman later, the missile "failed to achieve the desired accuracy"--it missed its target...
...last six minuted of play, the Crimson pulled to within six points, 48-42. The crowd and bench encouraged the hoopsters with "defense" cheers and the Crimson responded. But even after stealing the ball, the hoopsters often turned it back over to Dartmouth, or blew its late offensive chances at the foul line...
...version installed. At the second test, at White Sands on Nov. 4, the signal to turn on the missile's on-board batteries failed, promptly shutting down the Pershing and keeping it earthbound. Strike 3 came on Nov. 13 at White Sands, when an electrical connection blew out, and the test was postponed while spares were tested and inserted...
...Santa Maria basin is just 40 miles from the site of the 1969 disaster off Santa Barbara, where an oil well blew off a piece of the sea floor and coated miles of California beaches and thousands of sea birds with sticky crude. So far, environmentalists have not tried to block drilling activity at the new discovery site. Says John Zierold, chief lobbyist for the Sierra Club in California: "We have to await the results of some tests. We're not going to shoot from the hip on this...
Kennedy was the "Sundance Kid," who "blew into our lives like a blast of cold air." Leading into the Kennedy batch of drawings, Feiffer acknowledges the excitement the young leader provided, but he also sees in him a certain liberal aristocrafic falseness. "Style engulfed substance," he writes. Kennedy's views on foreign affairs "were shaped by James Bond." The cartoon characters begin to evince a certain liberal hypocrisy. One concludes that "civil rights used to be so much more tolerable before Negroes got into...