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...used carriage bolts, foam pontoons, a rudder and rocket engine, a tank of carbon dioxide and two bicycles for wheel power, Alan Stern '79, one of the builders said yesterday...
...loose with what you say, you may have lost the case. I am dealing with a lot of nations who are watching. Don't think they don't dissect every word. Every time you vary one word or one clause from the standard formulation, you get a rocket from each of the parties saying you've changed the position...
...they did minerals. Yet they could also be uncommonly generous, and before they exhausted their funds and energies, they set new standards for imaginative philanthropy. A list of their legacies includes the Guggenheim fellowships, Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum, and foundations that helped finance Robert Goddard's pioneering rocket research and the Leakey family's exploration into the origins...
...NEWSWEEK'S latest They're In Your Back Yard report, the cover sported a spooky photo of a long line of rocket launchers, with machine gun laden soldiers perched menacingly on top. Super-imposed was striking type stating "Cubans in Africa." The impressive arms looked brand new, and many Americans who disdain the use of force--especially alien force such as Cuban troops in Africa--were sure to be alarmed and angered...
...seems seeing isn't believing these days, at least not on the cover of Newsweek. In a correction box obscured in the letters-to-the-editor portion of last week's Newsweek, the editors confessed that they--oops!--made just a tiny mistake. The rocket launchers happened to be photographed, not in the jungles of Africa blowing up innocent women, children, and capitalists, but at a military parade in--you guessed it--down home Cuba. "By an inadvertence, this explanation of the cover photograph was left out," the correction box stated contritely, but not too contritely: the next line reminded...