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AUTONOMOUS LAND VEHICLE. A robot-like, driverless device on which work is well in progress. The 15,000-lb. behemoth "sees" through a television camera linked to a built-in computer that matches images to data in its memory and decides which way the vehicle should go. The blue-and-white ALV successfully lumbered down a Denver test track earlier this summer. Though it negotiated the narrow, half-mile course at just 3 m.p.h., that was far faster than in any previous trial...
...months, 23 members of a federal grand jury in Cleveland have investigated the local dealings of Jackie Presser, 58, the blunt-spoken, 300-lb. president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the nation's largest labor union. More than half a year has passed since the Justice Department's strike force in Cleveland recommended to its superiors in Washington that Presser be indicted for fraud and conspiracy. But the Justice Department seemed to be dragging its heels in asking for an indictment. Last week the jurors decided to take matters into their own hands. In an extraordinary move, they asked...
Between your second and third fingers is where the Enola Gay dropped the Bomb at 8:15 a.m. on Aug. 6. Once relieved of its nearly 9,000-lb. burden, the plane thrust upward, jerking the heads of the crew. The B-29 made a 60° dive and a 158° right turn. Forty-three seconds after the Bomb was released, it detonated. The crew members watched it explode in a red core below them. Then they headed back to base, the tiny island of Tinian in the Northern Marianas, 1,600 miles to the south...
...there she was on a roll, and last week in Miami she became the 34th Miss Universe, the second time a Puerto Rican has won the crown. "I used to sit in front of the TV and dream about becoming Miss Universe," recalls the 5-ft. 8-in., 118-lb. hazel-eyed brunet. "Last year I wanted to give it a try, but my mother told me, 'Wait, just wait, you need more poise.' This year, all of a sudden she told me, 'You have to do it now.' " The victory was worth $175,000 in cash and prizes. Next...
Sitting next to him is Michael Berg, a sophomore defensive tackle on the football team and, like Cohen, also Jewish—though you might not deduce the latter from Berg’s 6’2, 250 lb. frame...