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...KNOCK KNOCK...
...class organization" like the Phillies and the Dodgers, teams that take care of their own, life in the minor leagues can be lackluster. The big stadium is there--the hint of what could come in a wild dream--but the stands are usually near-empty; loudspeakers play "Knock Three Times" between innings and the "bullpen" is likely to be a bench near the left field line. The Eastern League has a grueling schedule, too: 40 games in 144 days, April 10 to September 1, no days off. Once in a great while a local reporter will approach Brayton, and produce...
...used indirectly to guide missiles to enemy planes, and to destroy invaders with their searing rays. Lasers may also be employed to protect aircraft. U.S. Air Force researchers, who have already equipped one Boeing NKC-135 as a test plane, are working on aircraft-carried lasers that could knock out ground-based antiaircraft installations by blinding gun crews...
...living. "They're treated just like everyone else," said one electrician. "I walk down the halls in my shorts. If they don't like it, too bad. Most of us are family men. If one guy starts giving a woman a hard time, there are twelve others ready to knock him down. We sort of watch out for them...
...National Security Council staff when he became President, she was always available. Kennedy's nonchalant attitude toward such encounters-as well as his agility in keeping his outside pursuits from interfering with his official duties-was shown one summer afternoon when the two were interrupted by a knock on the Lincoln Bedroom door. Angered, Kennedy threw the door wide open. There stood two top foreign affairs advisers with a batch of secret cables-and a clear view of the woman in bed. Never bothering to close the door, Kennedy cooled down, read the dispatches, and made his decisions before...