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...agreement might affect court cases and how Cox felt about it, the conversation was diverted to the Senate committee's problems. Repeatedly one of the White House participants pleaded: "The President needs a strong hand in order to deal effectively with the Middle East crisis." Ervin, a longtime hawk in military matters, and Baker, an ideological ally of the President's, decided to go along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Richard Nixon Stumbles to the Brink | 10/29/1973 | See Source »

Western intelligence sources have only scanty information about the SA-6, but they believe that the U.S. has nothing exactly like it. Launched from a highly mobile, tracked vehicle, the SA-6, called the Gainful, is more accurate and has a much more versatile guidance system than the U.S. Hawk-the American missile closest to it. Unlike anything U.S. pilots encountered in Viet Nam, the SA-6 can hit a plane flying anywhere from just above ground level to seven miles up. The SA-6 uses its radar to focus on the incoming plane, and at the right moment launches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Deadly New Weapons | 10/22/1973 | See Source »

...Billie Jean's best assets was Riggs himself, who never really got around to keeping his promise of doing a full month of hard training before the match. There were too many blondes to squeeze, too many reporters to hustle, too many products to hawk (TIME cover, Sept. 10). In the days before the match, Riggs skylarked around Houston, trying to build up the gate and have some laughs. He beat Dr. Denton Cooley, the noted heart surgeon (the purse: $100 and a free medical checkup, in which Riggs got high marks). He played one of his handicap farces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: How King Rained on Riggs' Parade | 10/1/1973 | See Source »

...lexicon: an out is outo, a hit is hitto, a homer is homma and a batter is a batta. Blasin game also mastered such words as massugu (straight), tsuyoku (strongly), yukkuri (slowly) and a lot of what might be called body Japanese. "A tiny gesture from Breiza," explains Hawk Out fielder Shuzo Aono, "and we more or less know what he is trying to tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Breiza-san Is a Hitto | 8/20/1973 | See Source »

Patience is the prophet's greatest ally. In 1900, three years before the Wright brothers puttered over the sand at Kitty Hawk, Wells foretold the modern air armada in The Shape of Things to Come. On the eve of World War I, after reading a book about radium, he wrote The World Set Free, a novel that predicted the atomic bomb with such imaginative precision that the late physicist Leo Szilard acknowledged that the book had inspired the building of his own apparatus for starting chain reactions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Days of the Prophet | 8/20/1973 | See Source »

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