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...been put in the back cell that night along with them. However, one of the witnesses admitted that he fell asleep immediately when he got into the cell, and the other, who works for ex-Sheriff Screws, admitted that he was too drunk. The effect of their testimony was nil...
Green's 2:18 time in the Easterns was more than a second quicker than Pringle's. Even should the Harvard dynamo be able to upset Green, however, his chances of beating swimmers from some of the weasern schools are all but nil...
Cornell gathers its courage and football team together today for a journey to Annapolis to play Navy. The Big Red just made it past a stumbling Harvard team last week, but its chances of similar luck today are almost nil...
...forces in the Congo recruited for "notably non-warlike" face what Halberstam called "the most dangerous army on earth": 20, 30, or 40 thousand Congolese soldiers--nobody knows how many--who have arms and nothing else." is nil, and holiday nights that "drunken, marauding, raping of soldiers" are a peril to the Congolese people...
...measuring its power drifted across the face of an oscilloscope. Called the Cambridge Electron Accelerator, the machine cost $12 million (paid by the Atomic Energy Commission), is 236 ft. in diameter, and consumes enough electricity at full power to operate 40 medium-sized TV stations. Its practical use is nil. It will never freshen sea water, cure cancer, or solve any other specific problem of applied science. But in the hands of Harvard and M.I.T. scientists, it will probe far beyond the frontier of present physical knowledge. No one knows what waits to be found in this dark region...