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...seconds. After 108 sec., with the Titan already 28 miles up, the reddish, rubberlike solid fuel burned out and the core rocket roared to life with 470,000 Ibs. of high-altitude thrust. This was the crucial moment, but the change from solids to liquids went off without a hitch. Then 12 minutes after ignition, the third-stage liquid-fuel rocket fired a 21,000-lb. dummy payload into orbit...
Paper Mountain. To finance his rapid growth, Tino borrowed huge sums of money, using huge amounts of oil as collateral. But there was one hitch: he never had all that oil. What he did have was a mountain of paper-certificates attesting that he owned the oil. Although Billie Sol Estes at that very time was making headlines for having passed off similarly spurious paper for nonexistent ammonia tanks, the bankers and brokers never bothered to check up on De Angelis' tanks. Nor did they question De Angelis' warehouse receipts, because Tino had them signed by officials...
There is only one hitch: once Radio Alert is installed, it cannot be shut off. That's very distracting...
...that comes up is spuds. Drafted into the Israeli army, Private Ronit Rinat, Miss Israel 1964, is on K.P.-and swears that she enjoys peeling potatoes just as much as peeling for the Miss Universe contest, where she placed third. When she's served her 18-month hitch, honey-blonde Ronit hopes to study medicine...
...Duffy. Duffy convinced the rebellious young prisoner that true rehabilitation would swing open "the Front Gate." Almost overnight Sands became a model prisoner and earned the right to work in the prison office and share a cell with another model prisoner-Caryl Chessman, who was then serving his first hitch at San Quentin. Years later, Chessman returned to San Quentin as a convicted kidnaper and rapist, and was executed. But Sands's reform was for real...