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World War II pilots rained death and fire by pulling on a lever said to resemble a dill pickle. The modern military pushes a "pickle" button. Anderson has half a heartbeat to push his. Since this isn't war, he is actually dropping a 25-lb. bowling pin with fins called a bomb dummy unit. It contains a small flash charge enabling technicians watching on video screens to pinpoint the hit or miss. Each pilot drops 28 bombs during the six-day contest. Two years ago, the top team triumphed over the runner-up by dropping a single bomb...
...United States to walk a delicate tightrope. Because the aid would be administered by an international agency such as the Red Cross, the U.S. would not violate the provisions of the Arias Plan prohibiting aid to anti-government rebels. And the Administration would preserve the contras as a lever, pressuring Managua into compliance with its part of the bargain...
...mortgages and $100,000 for home-equity loans). "Treacherous!" exclaimed Texas Republican Richard Armey. "This is a bait-and-switch tactic. They baited the President into a summit and then switched on him." The Democrats in fact are likely to use this package of tax increases as a lever to pry concessions out of the White House at the domestic summit. Though Reagan has withdrawn his frequent pledges to veto anything resembling a tax increase, he has made no secret of his reluctance to go any further than he absolutely must to get a deficit-reduction package...
...Warden Hilton Butler nodded slightly to a man known only as "Sam Jones," who stood hidden behind a cinder-block partition. The executioner proceeded to throw a lever and press two black buttons, and the first 2,400-volt surge of current tore through Rault's 6-ft., 228-lb. frame. Two minutes later the power stopped, and at 12:16 Prison Doctor Alfred Gould stepped forward to pronounce Rault dead...
...market a fat substitute in the U.S., scientists for several rival companies are working on similar substances. Among the possible competitors: the Frito-Lay division of PepsiCo (maker of Lay's potato chips and Fritos corn chips), CPC International (Mazola corn oil and Hellmann's mayonnaise) and the Lever Brothers subsidiary of Unilever (Imperial margarine and Mrs. Butterworth's syrup and pancake mixes...