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Whitting machines were all ready to snap off the carelessly trailed television cables and long locks of campaign photographers scrambling to keep up the pace of the dazzlingly efficient smiler and handshaker. Beginning at 2:47 p.m., the Nuclear Peanut blurred through all levels of the three-story factory like an overheated molecule going into the terminal phases of Brownian motion...
...this month there have been more than enough buyers to snap up the shares. Some were speculators who had sold "naked calls"-that is, speculators had sold to other investors options to buy at prefixed prices stocks that the sellers of the options did not own. As the deadline approached two weeks ago for the options to be exercised, the option sellers had to rush into the market to buy shares to cover their commitments. In turn, the buyers often turned right around and resold the same shares for an immediate profit. Another large group of stock buyers consisted...
Image of Horror. The movie is vastly ambitious, but it is also jaunty and diverting. There is time for an affection ate send-up of Bertolucci: Giannini's en trance into a Neapolitan music hall, stupidly splendid with a cigarette holder and snap-brim hat, recalls The Conform ist. There are some good visual puns...
Staubach's talent is throwing from the shotgun-the old football stand-by that Coach Tom Landry has adapted for third-down passing plays. Staubach sets up 5 yds. behind scrimmage, backpedals seven more after the snap and looks to hit any one of five receivers downfield. He says that the tactic allows him "to save a crucial couple tenths of a second"-time enough to read the defense, then choose one from a confusing mixture of possible passes in front of or behind opposing linebackers...
...shotgun is only one aspect of probably the most involved pro offense today. Dallas always changes its formation before the snap of the ball. Says Landry: "Most defenses are geared to recognition. If we can make the other team unsure of the play for a few seconds, we can hit our point of attack." Getting there is never simple. Notes Preston Pearson: "When I was playing for Baltimore and Pittsburgh, the quarterback's call in the huddle was a sentence long. Here it's a paragraph...