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...that are outfitted with infra-red sensors to detect the firing of Soviet rockets. The single satellite over the Eastern Hemisphere would give the U.S. about half an hour's warning if the Soviets were to launch their land-based missiles; the two others, hovering high above the Western Hemisphere???one over the Atlantic, the other over the Pacific?would provide less than 15 minutes' warning of an attack from missile-launching submarines...
...some ways, a White House wedding reflects the style of a presidency. Luci Johnson was married in the largest Roman Catholic church in the Western Hemisphere???in a ceremony to which, as Comedienne Edie Adams said, "only the immediate country was invited." Tricia's wedding will obey a Nixonian instinct for the via media. It will be neither the largest nor smallest: a simple spectacular...
...minute later, meters at the mammoth $737 million Robert Moses Niagara Power Plant?biggest in the hemisphere???also went wild. The power output surged from 1,500 megavolts to 2,250, then sank abruptly to zero. "The needle came clear off the paper!" exclaimed one engineer. "There were more squiggly lines than in an earthquake." Giant generators spun uncontrollably out of step, and overload switches sprang open...
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