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...Likeliest deal shaping up was that Administration leaders would kill the waiting period in return for giving the House 1) its age limit, or 2) its version of industrial conscription instead of the Overton-Russell amendment (leasing instead of condemnation...
...bomb-release line he must fly in a straight line and at a constant altitude for about 60 seconds (more than three miles at 200 m.p.h.), to give his bombardier time to draw a bead. It is there that he is the best target for the antiaircraft guns. On likeliest directions of approach anti-aircraft guns are most heavily established. The batteries are so placed that the tops of their inverted cones of effective fire (see lower cut) overlap. Because it is better to wing a bomber before he drops his load than after, fire cones are heavily overlapped ahead...
Though warning that Germans were the likeliest invaders, Prime Minister de Valera still clung determinedly to neutrality, hoped that the Irish could keep German submarines out of Cobh harbor, British cruisers away from Lough Swilly. Eire was neutral against everybody...
...Likeliest, folksiest of last week's newcomers was MBS's Sheep and Goats Club, an all-Negro jamboree with an all-Negro studio audience (Wednesdays 8 to 8:30 p.m. E.S.T.). Entrepreneur is colored Actor Richard Huey (All God's Chillun Got Wings, In Abraham's Bosom, Porgy), a Harlem big shot who runs a barbecue near Lenox Avenue called Aunt Dinah's Kitchen, and operates on the side a theatrical booking office for Negro talent. As Bossman Huey explained the setup: "Over on the right here we got the sheep. . . . They sing hymns...
After collating various scraps of evidence, he decided that June 18, 3251 B. C. was the likeliest date. Ancient Egyptian records indicate that on the first New Year's Day the Dog Star rose at dawn; Johnson felt there should also be a new moon in the west. Dr. Johnson asked the Buhl Planetarium to turn their big projector back through nearly 52 centuries. The planetarium did it, although the job required 20 hours. On the first try, the sky was not as it should have been. Then Johnson realized that the planetarium was using the Gregorian calendar, whereas...