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...example, the council urged "continued research to determine the effects of low-level doses of radiation." But research by whom? As for air pollution, the report was almost baffling. It called for "evaluating" current procedures for auto emission controls and "incentives" (not named) to get industry on the right track, but offered no details...
...tunic and fawn cavalry pants, with his pet lion Gilmore tugging on a leash. Turner's air stunts were no less electrifying; he performed strut-wrenching maneuvers in such films as Hell's Angels and Flight at Midnight, was a champion at the hair-raising sport of low-level pylon racing at speeds of up to 300 m.p.h., and in 1929 set a Los Angeles-to-New York passenger-plane flight record...
...concept has never taken firm hold. Indeed, it is less common today than it was half a century ago, when William Jennings Bryan so strongly disagreed with Woodrow Wilson's hostile policy toward Imperial Germany that he resigned as Secretary of State. While there have been a few low-level resignations on political principle from the Nixon Administration, no one at the Cabinet or subCabinet level has left. The last Cabinet official to leave in protest and say why was onetime Labor Secretary Martin Durkin; in 1953, after less than nine months in office, he resigned because President Eisenhower...
...some 700 medium bombers (range: 3,000 miles); the U.S. has had none since the B-47 was phased out. The Soviet tactical air force includes 4,800 planes, mainly attack bombers such as the YAK-28 and fighters (MIG-21s and SU-7s), which can be used for low-level bombing and strafing missions. There are also some 1,700 transport aircraft, including an estimated 20 of the monstrous Antonov-22s, which can carry 720 troops. Despite the Soviet advantage in numbers, most experts rate the U.S. Air Force superior to the Russian in every important category because...
...Phantoms provided earlier by the U.S., have learned to bomb from low ranges at which they can scarcely miss. They have also learned, like U.S. pilots in Viet Nam, to recognize the "Sam song"-the change of pitch in tracking signals that indicates that a highflying surface-to-air missile is pursuing them. The Sam song means that the time for escape and evasion has come. Russia, however, is now supplying Egypt with the more advanced SA-3, a smaller, solid-fuel missile designed to hit low-level planes...