Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only time the engines of the 155-mm. and 175-mm. self-propelled gun carriers are turned off is when Soviet spy satellites are about to pass overhead. The engines are shut down eight hours before the pass-overs so that infra-red sensors on the satellites will not pick up motor-engine heat, thereby disclosing Israeli strengths and dispositions...
Government officials can pick from a choice of press curbs to stop the Sunday Times: the 1911 Official Secrets Acts, which bar unauthorized disclosure of any secret government document; sweeping copyright restrictions; vague and unwritten contempt-of-court rules; and the principle of "confidence," which prohibits publication of industrial secrets and other private information. Those legal weapons are seldom put into action. Their mere existence serves to discourage publication of sensitive material. Editors note wryly that a Watergate scandal might go undetected in Britain because the press there would be prevented from pursuing the story...
Parent understands the concern; he once played in similar amateur programs in his native Montreal. His introduction to hockey came with a tennis ball as a puck and galoshes for skates. The pick-up games were played on neighborhood streets and young Bernie, always a loner, wanted to play goalie from the start. "I stopped the first shot and that settled it," he recalls. "The challenge to make a save was always there. It was just in me." The son of a factory foreman, Parent did not start skating until he was 11, and then his debut in the goal...
This was, however, an extraordinarily clear print of the film documenting the assassination. A few seconds after Kennedy is shot, as his car begins to pick up speed, a man aiming a rifle at the limousine appears in one of the frames, number 413. Although it is impossible to see him at normal film speed, or even when just viewing the single frame, a blow up enlarging the corner of the frame to the size of the entire screen shows clearly that the rifleman is no illusion. He appears to be in a prone position, wearing a small...
...their investigation and point to a wide conspiracy. Why did Warren and Ford ignore Ruby? Wouldn't common sense dictate that an individual so obviously involved in the case be thoroughly investigated? Was Warren, as Ruby later said, "a very naive man," or did the commission deliberately and carefully pick and choose its evidence? What did Ruby mean when he told the two public officials, as they were leaving, that they would see the emergence of an entirely new form of government, if they did not uncover the truth about the assassination...