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...Monday, the FBI assigns almost one-fourth of its 156-man Boston staff to the heist. Cambridge police put together composite drawings of four thieves from descriptions provided by the guard, Charles Pearson, and by an unidentified woman...
...One month later, USDA experts discovered the Soviet Union had purchased its full three-year $750 million grain allotment. The USSR had bought one-fourth of the 1972-73 wheat crop and large quantities of corn and soybeans, the nation's chief feed grains. The quantity of their purchase surprised USDA officials who had miscalculated Soviet needs...
...canal. With their high-technology controls, the SAMs held the key to victory or defeat. The Israelis, who had easily established air superiority in the previous Middle East war, had to destroy this fortress of SAMs and artillery. In the first week of the war, Israel had lost about one-fourth of its air force; most of the planes had been shot down by SAMs. Since a direct aerial assault on the missile sites might have proved suicidal, the Israelis chose to attack them instead on the ground...
...tourist buses are parked next to the lords' Rolls-Royces. Nearly 500,000 persons visited the casino during the year. Ardent gamblers from Italy make up one-fourth of the clientele, but S.B.M. is trying to draw more affluent tourists from Germany, Spain and Britain. Near the casino, where pigeon-shooting grounds were located until Rainier's princess gave the coup de Grace to the cruel sport, S.B.M. is building a big convention center. Already it has booked 55 conventions for the year, and conventioneers from anthropologists to acupuncturists are droning speeches by day and dropping money...
...original insulating glass was from one-fourth inch to 5/16 inch wide, with a one half inch space between the panes...