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...outscore them, but to devise bold new means to stop them. Thus football tacticians developed the zone defense (see diagram next page), a formation of varying intricacy designed basically to provide blanket coverage deep in the defensive secondary and thus rob the offense of its most lethal weapon: the long bomb...
...letters is torn open, a tiny spring hits a detonator little larger than an aspirin, which explodes the plastique. The whole thing can weigh less than an ounce and be scarcely one-eighth of an inch thick. But its lethal range can be three feet...
FRANKFURTER can be found just below Frankenstein in the dictionary. It can also be found immediately beneath contempt in Ralph Nader's vast lexicon of villains. To Nader, the ABM and the smart bomb are scarcely more lethal than a chain of processed sausages. Hot dogs, insists the consumer advocate, are "among America's deadliest missiles." New York City's Consumer Affairs Commissioner Bess Myerson agrees: "After I found out what was in hot dogs, I stopped eating them." This people's entrée, this frank companion of alfresco meals and ball games...
Despite the sectarianism and vague conflicts in approach these groups and individuals profess a shared belief in Ayn Randian laissez faire capitalism. And while the climate of Massachusetts appears lethal to their species of political flora the success of similar groups and individuals elsewhere suggests that the new growth may become may become a hardy fixture in ideological forests...
Promising as the process sounds, it still involves certain risks. Many scientists oppose the proliferation of nuclear reactors, which create lethal wastes and might accidentally release disastrous amounts of radioactivity. The spread of reactors appears to be inevitable, however, in view of the increasing demand for power and the dwindling reserves of conventional fuels. Hydrogen also scares people who cannot forget the fiery end of the dirigible Hindenburg in 1937. Nevertheless, German industry daily pumps hydrogen through 185 miles of pipeline, and researchers at Oklahoma State University use it to power four experimental cars that produce almost no pollution...