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...airmen enclosed the besieged fortress in a virtual curtain of falling bombs. Though the Marines lost most of their original supply of artillery ammunition when an enemy shell hit their supply dump early in the siege, they were able to call in airpower for the sort of pinpoint destruction that is normally associated with howitzers. When the lowering clouds lifted a few hundred feet, dartlike Air Force F-100s, Navy and Marine F-4 fighter-bombers and stubby A-4 light bombers zipped under the overcast to place high explosives on the spreading enemy trenches. Huge, eight...
...after Cambridge University's Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory began using a new and highly sensitive radio telescope. Investigating the angular size of a quasar, a pigtailed, 24-year-old Irish graduate student named Jocelyn Bell noticed some strange, pulsating signals that were "so weak they were hard to pinpoint." Working in excited-secrecy, a Mullard Observatory team led by Astronomer Anthony Hewish began an intensive analysis of the pulsations...
Harvard added two more goals in the second period, one on a pinpoint wrist shot by Chris Gurry at 0:46 and one on Mark's beautiful breakaway...
...battlefield itself, swift jet fighter-bombers flash in under the low-hanging clouds to dump napalm and explosives on enemy positions that are now as close as 300 yards to the base perimeter. The Marines are, in fact, relying on air to do the job of pinpoint destruction that their own artillery would normally undertake. Reason: they lost so many shells when their ammo dump was hit three weeks ago that they are conserving ammunition for the big attack...
Actually it is hard for the anti-grant spokesmen to pinpoint specific instances in which the Government has attached restrictive strings to its aid. Though religious services may not be held in a Government-financed science building, a college could easily build several chapels with the money it would otherwise have to spend on a science center. Beloit College President Miller Upton, who readily accepts aid, notes that some federal construction requires the temporary erection of a building-site sign with Lyndon B. Johnson's name in letters three inches high-but Upton agrees that this hardly hinders...