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...agents, carrying telephone and electronic equipment, were apprehended Tuesday in a broom closet adjacent to the defense attorney offices. The men said they were making a "routine check of FBI lines to detect outside bugging...
...incredibly inhumane ostracism leveled against Cadet Pelosi by fellow West Pointers [June 18] has answered my question of whence originated the inhumane treatment of some Vietnamese. The whole academy class should be tested psychologically to detect dormant sadism that might result in future Viet Nams...
Baker now admits: "I could detect a faint trace of that smell three or four years ago-but I don't now." In 1969 and 1971 he brashly challenged Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania for the Republican Senate leadership and lost; now he cautiously shrugs aside pointed teasing by colleagues in the Senate cloakroom that his work on the Watergate committee is a prelude to a bigger role...
...them when they side with students against flabby old tenured academics. You admit your ignorance here when you admit that "probably... perhaps" you know what we did. You certainly know nothing about the assistant professors on the board of examiners this year, none of whom you have interviewed to detect their propensity to machismo. As chairman of the board and a professor, I can testify to two facts: one is that all our final decisions on the failures were unanimous; the other is that no one could have pushed or tricked me into agreeing to a decision in these cases...
Hundreds of observers around the world are preparing to examine the comet in many frequencies of light -from ultraviolet to infrared. Harvard's A. Edward Lilley even hopes to detect, for the first time, microwave emissions from a comet. Above the earth's obscuring blanket of air unmanned satellites-perhaps even Skylab's sophisticated observatory-may make the most fruitful observations of all. All the observations will be aimed at determining the structure of the comet and its origin-probably beyond the planet Pluto, where billions of comet-like objects are believed to be orbiting as remnants...