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...engage in illegal activity in which he would otherwise not be disposed to engage." Key to this defense are tapes showing undercover agents coaching Williams to "come on strong" when he meets the ersatz Arab, telling him, "It's all bull. You gotta play and blow your horn...
When Jim Rice appears at the plate for the first time, a middle-aged man wearing a beatten up leather cabbie's hat, the front unsnapped and flipped up, turns to a short bald man with horn-rimmed sunglasses next to him and says with authority...
...Santa Monica that the Vandeweghes met the first of many UCLA coaches who have enjoyed the luxury of coaching a member of their talented and hardworking family. The Vandeweghes' postive experiences under the tutelage of Bob Horn, a Santa Monica coach who also directed the Bruin water polo program, gave UCLA the inside track when Kiki and Tauna reached recruiting...
...such clients as Cuba, East Germany and Viet Nam, the Soviets have set out to exploit instability, with distressing success in Angola, Afghanistan, the Horn of Africa and Central America. Moreover, Soviet adventurism may well become more dangerous when the aging leaders of the Kremlin are succeeded by a new generation that has known only expanding power. At a private dinner celebrating his confirmation by the Senate as Secretary of State, Haig told friends, "Every night I pray that [Soviet President Leonid] Brezhnev stays healthy and alive for a good while to come-at least until we have caught...
...scientists' patience was amply rewarded. The wave lengths of celestial light had been drastically stretched, or shifted to the red end of the spectrum-an effect comparable to a familiar terrestrial one: the lowering of a horn's pitch as a car speeds away from an observer. From that yardstick, the astronomers calculated that the galaxies were receding from earth at more than half the speed of light, or better than 93,000 miles per sec. Since objects with higher velocities are presumed to be more distant in a universe that seems to be expanding at a uniform...