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...after the 1962 Cuban crisis, it has become, as Jane's Fighting Ships notes, "the supernavy of a superpower." Moscow's growing strength at sea has long since been noted in the Mediterranean and in the Indian Ocean. But the fact is that the northern fleet, the smallest in the Soviet navy at the end of World War II, is now the biggest-the superfleet of a supernavy...
...vote by which the American League team owners agreed to let Senator Owner Bob Short move his club to the Dallas-Fort Worth area next season. The Senators' need to move was underscored by the fact that the Cleveland game drew only 1,072 fans, the smallest turnout in the league this season...
...mammoth machine is one of the most complex ever devised by man. But before the National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, III., goes into operation, the world's largest atom smasher is getting some vital help from one of the smallest workers available: a friendly, 15-in.-long ferret named Felicia...
...biochemists admit that their results may not be applicable to humans. They note that "feeding" the rats marijuana through tubes inserted directly into their stomachs is about one-sixth as effective as inhalation. On the other hand, the smallest chronic dosage given to any of the groups of rats was 30 times as high as that inhaled by heavy users of less potent, natural marijuana. Moreover, to duplicate the rat experiment with humans, the scientists estimated, a subject would have to puff his way through 50 joints of marijuana a day. Even so, the results of the experiment raise...
Although the trio constitute most of the film, Schlesinger has not slighted even the smallest subordinate role. A 53-year-old hence unemployable businessman (Tony Britton) is a character worthy of a tragedy all to himself. In a single scene, Peggy Ashcroft as Alex's mother furnishes her daughter with an almost schizophrenic past...