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...Harvard students plan to inspect about four planes a day, six days a week, during the four weeks of the survey. The cockpit and stewardess areas will receive extra scrutiny with the radiation detection devices, because of the higher exposure rates to which aircraft personnel are subject...
...tons every 24 hours), sometimes striking to within 14 miles of the capital. The effectiveness of this massive effort could not be judged, since U.S. announcements have been deliberately vague, and Western journalists are unable to venture far enough from the capital these days to inspect the damaged areas...
Taluncci uses ingenious bursts of humor to maintain his pace and to make his point. In cameo appearances, Daniel Ellsberg overhears Richard Nixon telling a dirty joke about Billy Graham and something called "Checkers," after the Committee to Re-Inspect the President installs an amplifier instead of a transmitter in Ellsberg's mother's stuffed derma...
Around them swirls the carnival of the auto show. The 300 cars and 60 motorcycles are roped off from the crush of the public, the starflake paint mirroring the mustache and leather jacket of a hot-rodder bending close to inspect the chrome-plated carburetors, and his little brother in jeans and a Ski-Doo jacket peering in to see how high the speedometer goes. Down the aisle sits "Peaches and Kreme," a 1934 Ford coupe with a 1968 Corvette engine and a body painted "Campus Creme" on top and "Bronze Starflake" below (and a sign: DO NOT TOUCH THIS...
...release political prisoners on the same schedule as the official P.O.W.s. Victims of torture on both sides, they languish in a legal never-never land, protected by neither the Paris Accords nor even the status of common criminals. Late last month, amid rumors that peace-keeping teams would inspect the notorious "tiger cages" on the South Vietnamese prison island of Con Son, Saigon set free 124 victims of "political re-education." TIME Correspondent David DeVoss interviewed several of them at a Cholon hospital and cabled this report...