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...lonely trails from a new strike in the High Sierras at a place candidly christened Coarse Gold. He runs across another ex-lawman (Randolph Scott), who is picking up pennies as a carnival sharpshooter. Scott agrees to go along, and suggests a third partner, a sassy, fist-fast, trigger-quicker kid (Ronald Starr). The trio shortly becomes a quartet, as a naive but personable girl (Mariette Hartley) decides to swap the whip-hand threats of her religious zealot father for the ring-finger promises of a beau up at Coarse Gold...
...effort to land men on the moon, some of his technical advisers were favoring a third: LOR (lunar orbital rendezvous). Though LOR at first glance seems like a bizarre product of far-out science fiction, many scientists are already convinced that it will prove easier, quicker and perhaps cheaper than any other system for making lunar landings...
...twice as much on advertising as Germans normally do. Konrad Henkel, who shares control of his company with eleven relatives, believes he can offset U.S. advertising with German science, is steadily automating his plants, and has his chemists working with textile makers to develop fibers that will get cleaner quicker with Henkel detergents...
...shooting for his seventh straight victory against the heavy-hitting West Pointers. Only a sophomore, Del Rossi mixes a variety of speeds and pitches to keep opposing batters consistently off balance. Not overpoweringly fast, he uses his slow stuff to set up hitters and make the fast ball seem quicker than...
...attack was launched, they had all decamped." Among the most important lessons learned and urgently taught to the Vietnamese: abandon the "blockhouse mentality," in which static troops defend only themselves; give up moving in large units and in big "sweeps." which accomplish nothing in the Vietnamese terrain; develop "quicker reaction time," i.e., hit back faster. The U.S. effort is aimed at helping the Vietnamese to do this themselves...