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...when it works, De Antonio's sense of juxtaposition can be lethal. News film of Nixon's 1968 nomination acceptance speech ("Let's win this one for Ike") is intercut with footage of Pat O'Brien in Knute Rockne advising his lachrymose squad to "win one for the Gipper"-their hospitalized teammate, who, with anachronistic irony, was portrayed by Ronald Reagan. De Antonio is also shrewd enough to know when Nixon is his own worst enemy, and he devotes a long section of Millhouse to the Checkers speech alone. Reciting his list of assets, attempting...
...legacies are more lethal than Tay-Sachs disease, a rare ailment that occurs almost exclusively among Jews of Eastern European ancestry. Caused by an inherited enzyme deficiency, the disease begins to affect infants at about six months of age, causes brain deterioration, and usually kills the patient before his fifth birthday. Science has yet to discover either a cure or a treatment. But doctors at Baltimore's John F. Kennedy Institute believe that they can prevent it. In a unique experiment to bring genetics to the community, they are seeking to identify those who carry the deadly Tay-Sachs...
...Lethal Earful...
Only a Law Book. As in his first trial in 1968, Newton's defense was that he had been unconscious when Rookie Patrolman John Frey was fatally shot in the early-morning dark of Oct. 28, 1967. Newton said that he had nothing more lethal than a law book in his car when Frey stopped him, and that when he tried to quote the law book, Frey became enraged and shot him in the belly. After that, said Newton, he remembered nothing except hearing a volley of shots. The defense suggested that Frey might have been accidentally shot...
...General Assembly, does not provide for an inspection system, but violations may be brought before the Security Council. The Russians have never admitted to having any biological weapons, though intelligence sources say that Russia does have vast stockpiles. The U.S., which reportedly has a billion lethal doses of nerve gas alone, has already started destroying its stockpiles...