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...flashing so brightly that it could be seen for 20 miles. A fluorescent dye spread over the water, making a patch of bright color to attract search aircraft. As a final touch, a shark-repelling chemical dissolved in the water. Sharks are fascinated by the recovery apparatus, and a nip from one of them could send the whole thing to the bottom...
...sixth race in two days, the low hurdles finals, he and Cornell's Bo Roberson ran nip and tuck for the first six hurdles as both pulled away from the rest of the field. Again Landau's conditioning proved the big margin as he pulled away and finished the race all by himself. His winning time of 22.9 seconds broke his day-old record, but was disallowed because of a trailing wind of five and one-half miles, one-half mile too much for an official record...
...Nip & Tuck. Both the President and Dulles had been living anxiously on the edge of Nixon's trip since Tuesday, when Ike got first word at a White House luncheon of the Venezuelan mob attack on the Nixons (see HEMISPHERE). The President's first move was to order Dulles to find out from the Venezuelan embassy if its government was able to protect the Nixons. He added: "We had better find out what we have militarily in the area." The President called Defense Secretary Neil McElroy and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Nathan Twining. Under Secretary of State...
MARRIAGE SLOWDOWN will nip market for houses, furniture, etc. Dropping steadily since last August, marriage rate this year is about 10% below year ago. Reasons: low birth rate of Depression 1930s combined with today's economic slump and living-cost spiral...
...idea that a nip at the bottle may help to nip a cold, long popular with laymen, won medical support last week in the Archives of Otolaryngology. In the first stage of a cold, argued Chicago's Dr. Noah D. Fabricant, the nose is cold; its blood vessels contract, nasal passages become dry, and the stage is set for infection. At this time, said Dr. Fabricant, a jigger of whisky can raise the nose temperature and reverse the process...