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The new system hinges on the installation of an atomic clock and a 40-lb. computer mechanism in every U.S. commercial aircraft. At three-second intervals, precisely timed signals from the computers would surround each aircraft with a protective electronic bubble. When one bubble touched another, the system would trigger...
The final package included a massive list of 60,000 items on which tariffs are to be pulled down an average 35% by 1972, a special agreement on the thorny issue of chemical duties, a plan to provide grain for underdeveloped nations, and a code to curb below-cost "dumping...
"Everybody in the 8th Wing thinks he hung the moon," says one of Olds's aviators. "We'd follow him anywhere." To make sure they do, Olds keeps in top shape, plays squash daily on a court he built himself at Ubon. Well aware that his reaction time...
Ominous Sign. "Before, the majority was asked only to ratify; now it is asked to abdicate," said Jean Lecanuet, the head of the Centre Démocrate Party and a leading center politician. He was expressing widespread bitterness at what many non-Gaullists consider a maneuver to counteract the larger...
Director Richard Gottlieb and his evil men (Allan Shapiro, Mike Civin, Bill Gray, and John Burslem) go for easy laughs occasionally, but spin some clever scenes, particularly their demonstration of a stock maneuver with salt shakers balanced on wine glasses.