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...tried in vain to fire Special Prosecutor Maurice Nadjari, a controversial Republican holdover (TIME, Jan. 5). Nadjari then disclosed that he had been investigating Cunningham on suspicion of peddling judgeships in exchange for payoffs. The special prosecutor in effect accused Carey of attempting to fire him in order to shield Cunningham. Now Cunningham is strenuously fighting a grand jury subpoena, and Carey has ordered an investigation into the allegation that he himself was covering up for the chairman. Meanwhile, the state Democratic Party's morale and fund raising are seriously sagging...
These results show the need for further research into the effects of technology on the ozone layer. Large solar flares occur infrequently, allowing the ozone layer time to be replenished by natural processes. But man's assaults on the ozone shield, in the form of SST flights, aerosol sprays and other chemicals, are continuous and could permanently deplete the layer...
...would lead to an increase in skin cancer. But there is no hard evidence that the ozone layer has been depleted in recent years, despite both high-altitude jet flight and the widespread use of aerosol sprays; indeed, at least one study suggests that the thickness of the ozone shield actually increased during the 1960s. The Concorde's designers admit that the ship is noisy on takeoff, but they believe that the effects of its noise may be at least partially alleviated by having the plane execute a banking maneuver immediately after takeoff to avoid flying over heavily settled...
...basic model of Master Mind, one player, known as the "codemaker," picks four pegs from a choice of six colors and places them in any order he chooses under a shield on one side of a board. The object of his opponent, the "codebreaker," is to place four pegs in holes on his side of the board, attempting to duplicate the color and order of the hidden pegs in a maximum of ten tries. After the codebreaker has set up his four pegs, the codemaker gives clues by placing in four small holes either black markers (for correct color, correct...
...scholars and other citizens marched in protest against Lyndon Johnson's plan to install nuclear-tipped Sentinel ABMs at twelve sites around the country. The furor went on even after Richard Nixon changed the ABM'S name to Safeguard and scaled down the project to a "thin" shield protecting only a few cities from attack by iCBMs. The issue began to fade after the U.S. and the Soviet Union agreed, in the 1972 accord on strategic arms limitation, to limit themselves to just two ABM installations apiece...