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...weeks have still not arrived. In addition, rings arriving scratched had to be accepted, according to Balley, "because the buyer's initials were already on them." The Committee also accused the ring representatives of false advertising for telling students H.S.A. rings were the only ones available with the Harvard shield...
Armed with an "intermediate shield," before long they find themselves able to speak extemporaneously to a given point...
...must develop anti-missile defenses. We must face the fact that if the Soviets achieve a reliable anti-missile defense before we do, our retaliatory power could cease to be the shield for freedom...
These reports were phony. They had been planted as an elaborate preparatory touch to the biggest air-defense exercise in history-Sky Shield II. When Sky Shield II actually started last weekend, all commercial and private flying over the U.S. and Canada ceased for twelve hours, from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. C.S.T., and some 2,100 commercial flights were canceled...
...obvious difference between Sky Shield II and the real thing was that no bombs exploded, no antiaircraft missiles were launched, no guns were fired. But there was another difference; it would take days and weeks of study to assess the effectiveness of NORAD's response to the make-believe attack. If that attack had been by someone else and in earnest, the results would be all too apparent all too soon...