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...impassioned campaigner for longer parietals attacked opponents' "squirt gun type mentality": "they said they wanted to live in a girls' and not a coed dorm; apparently boys change the atmosphere and make studying more difficult. It is no longer possible to run uninhibited up and down the hall...
...kill the patient by ramming a neural ganglion. Not a second too soon, Hemonaut Boyd sinks the sub with the laser gun. The villain is then devoured, head first, by a white cell that resembles a large, aggressive hominy grit. Whereupon the survivors follow the optic nerve until they squirt out of the tear duct and are rescued from a teardrop that looks like Lake Michigan. And then back, BACK, BACK to normal size...
City & Country. Doctors manned 36 clinics, mostly in schools. In the larger centers, they were armed with high-pressure air guns to squirt a dose of vaccine through the skin of a child's arm so fast that he could hardly feel it. Smaller centers used conventional hypodermic needles. The vaccine, Pitman-Moore's attenuated, live-virus form (TIME, Feb. 19), was free, but parents, who were asked to drop a token quarter into a donation box, contributed $8,256.68, or 26? a shot...
...third of some 20 Soviet-supplied surface-to-air missile sites-this one just 52 miles northeast of Hanoi. In 90 dizzy seconds, the Skyhawks swooped on their prey at 570 m.p.h., slammed 500-lb. and 1,000-lb. bombs into the site and watched one SAM squirt wildly along the ground "like a balloon that the air's coming out of." It was vengeance of a sort for the five U.S. planes that have fallen so far to the long...
...product of a complex science. It is basically a pressurized tank for liquid oxidizer, behind which sits a combustion chamber lined with solid fuel. The two propellants are usually hypergolic-they ignite spontaneously when they come in contact with each other. A valve permits a jet of oxidizer to squirt into the rear chamber, combustion begins, and a hot, high-temperature flame roars out of the nozzle. The oxidizer valve can be used as a throttle to reduce the thrust and the engine can be stopped and started any number of times, a maneuver that is difficult or impossible with...