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...bomb, and luckily the skipper of one fishing sloop was sure he knew the exact spot where the bomb fell-five miles off the coast near Palomares. Other sea going Spanish witnesses were equally sure the site was elsewhere, but the U.S. Navy routinely put down a marker buoy just the same...
...miles of coastal water, ships equipped with ultra-sensitive sonar crisscrossed the 120-sq.-mi. search zone. But Rear Admiral William S. Guest, 50, commander of the task force, ordered three weird-looking submersibles, especially designed for deep-sea research, to pay special attention to the spot around the buoy...
...Immoral. Like any genius, Keynes had plenty of faults and shortcomings. Even his admirers admit that he could be maddeningly abstruse and confusing. MJ.T.'s Paul Samuelson, for example, thinks that Keynes downplayed the importance of monetary policy. His few outright critics feel that, while he knew how to buoy a depression-stricken industrial economy, he offered little in the way of practical information about how to keep a prosperous modern economy fat and secure. Keynesian theories are certainly unworkable in the underdeveloped nations, where the problem is not too little demand but insufficient supply, and where the object...
Immediately after the race Navy protested that Harvard had turned inside a buoy marking the beginning of the last leg. The judges, however, ruled that Harvard had respected the buoy...
...college player, took charge of the relentless Irish attack. A 21 -yd. pass to All-America End Jack Snow made it 10-0, and a pitchout to Halfback Bill Wolski hiked the score to 17-0. In the Southern Cal dressing room, Coach John McKay tried to buoy up his downhearted Trojans: "If we can score the first time we get the ball in the second half, it's a brand-new ball game." Upside Down. Southern Cal scored all right, striking 68 yds. in nine plays to cut the gap to 17-7. But it still seemed like...