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...even if it's only a fantasy of our nation's chief foreign policy administrator (and one should notice that the White House did not disavow his statement), that is scary enough. For Haig's scenario demonstrates the ultimate idiocy of any nuclear deterrent: what happens when your bluff is finally called...
...Marsh uncovered Bronto's remains in a quarry in Como Bluff, Wyo. The bones were headless, as all Brontosaurus skeletons ever found have been, because of fragile connections between head and neck. Marsh did what paleontologists often do when they are missing pieces in a fossil puzzle: he capped the reassembled beast with skull fragments found elsewhere/Unfortunately, they came from another long-necked dinosaur called Camarasaurus. At least partly because of Marsh's prestige, his flat-nosed monster became the model for other museums as well as Brontosaurus representations in books, comic strips, even advertisements...
...President Nixon banned any U.S. production of biological weapons. Within the past two years, the Army has been granted $23 million for a factory in Pine Bluff, Ark., to manufacture "binary" chemical weapons, in which components of nerve gas are loaded separately into artillery shells and become lethal only upon explosion. Ronald Reagan, however, has yet to authorize production...
...last week in La Jolla, Calif, of lung cancer at age 73 makes room at the top of the 78-year-old International Brotherhood of Teamsters; the succession is not clear. But there seems little prospect that the union will change very much from what it was under the bluff and blustery Fitzsimmons...
...applicant. Most other firms use more informal, and often inadequate, methods. They depend primarily on the savvy of executives doing job interviews, or the corporate personnel department, to catch cheaters. Polaroid verifies college claims only for recent graduates. A personnel director, Donald Fronzaglia, insists that few people can bluff their way into the company's high-technology jobs...