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Some Americans may think the MX missile is a batty idea, but it is the height of orthodoxy compared with a weapons scheme described in this month's American Heritage magazine. Just after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941, a Pennsylvania dental surgeon named Lytle S. Adams hit upon the idea of arming bats with tiny incendiary bombs and letting them loose over Japan. The bomber bats would supposedly seek refuge in the eaves of Japanese houses, where their deadly cargoes-equipped with a 15-hr, timer-would explode and set off fires...
...Pinball's four major characters, Kosinski is most comfortable with Domostroy, and he puts a lot of himself--including his Eastern European origins--into his composer turned detective. Like his creator, who played Grigory Zinoviev in Reds, Domostroy at the height of his popularity once played "a Russian composer in an epic Hollywood film...
Perennially in the ECVL's top three, the Knights held experience, height and weight advantages over the Crimson, advantages Palm attributes to Rutgers' recruiting. "They do a lot of recruiting, particularly in the Caribbean." Palm said, adding that as a result the Knights' "team age tends...
...Rutgers' height and jumping ability precluded Crimson attempts to attack double blocks and forced Harvard to alter its game plan. The Crimson concentrated on fakes rather than brute force in an effort to isolate blockers. Because Harvard faced spikers who could hit over blocks, the spikers had to rely more than usual on back-court defense...
...unique problem for Beckwith: "He is the first person I have covered in 15 years of journalism that I literally have had to look up to. At 6 ft. 7½ in., he tops me by an inch and a half. Volcker also likes to joke about his height. 'You're just a short guard,' he chided me recently. 'I'm a power forward...