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Since the Air Force's SR-71 began flying over Chicago three months ago, the Chanute Air Force Base in downstate Illinois has received 1,630 letters of complaint, 1,497 of them claiming damage (usually cracked plaster and glass) caused by sonic booms. In Boston, the Air Force and Air Guard are formally investigating a recent boom that, according to newspaper accounts, knocked scores of pedestrians off their feet, leaving "a trail of terror...
Berg believes the piece to be a bronze casting of a plaster original and does not know whether other copies exist. "It is well-suited for its present location," he said, and predicted it will remain in the Yard. "I think it's spectacular--I love...
...breaking North Viet Nam's spirit, it has certainly taken an enormous toll of its national substance. Despite the dispute in the U.S. over extending the range of targets, there are so few major ones yet unbombed that U.S. pilots spend most of their time returning to plaster the same old places time and again. Last week the U.S. not only further shrunk the list of off-limit targets but employed a new aerial bombing strategy that threatens to paralyze completely North Viet Nam's transportation and supply arteries...
...large amount of poison pills" after they arrived, but was rushed to a hospital by the officers before they could become fatal. Back home the next day, he left his guards and entered a bathroom, where he swallowed more poison pills that he had concealed beneath an adhesive plaster on his body...
Hardy Minority. Considering that the Beatles' trademark is offbeat irreverence, their effect on mature audiences is odd ly amusing. If the teeny-boppers made the Beatles plaster gods, many adults make them pop prophets, and tend to theorize solemnly, instead of seriously, about their significance. The Rev. B. Davie Napier, dean of the chapel at Stanford University, says that "no entity hits as many sensitive people as these guys do." Napier, who has dwelt in past sermons on Yellow Submarine and Eleanor Rigby, is convinced that Sgt. Pepper "lays bare the stark loneliness and terror of these lonely times...