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Wheel Done. In Nashville, Tenn., Mrs. Herschel Erwin drove to a market for more steak, found the store closed, hit and killed a 500-lb. steer on her way home...
...granting stock options. Dr. Henry Singleton left North American Aviation for Litton, where in three years he produced the answer to one of the Pentagon's toughest problems: an inertial guidance system that is light enough (50 lbs. v. 500 to 1,000 Ibs. for earlier systems) to steer the most sophisticated missiles...
...treated meat to animals with startling results: spayed females went into heat again, and normal males became infertile or impotent. The researchers forgot to mention how much free hormone was left in the feed. But there was another bogy: in an alternate method, hormone pellets are implanted in the steer's ear or neck for gradual absorption. From the neck, unabsorbed pellets might slip into an edible cut and thence into an unsuspecting customer...
...bill's lobbyists, passage climaxed an uphill fight. Some 30 years ago, U.S. humane societies were aghast to discover that a steer being led to slaughter was first stunned by a hammer blow-often ineffectively-then slashed across the throat and allowed to bleed to death. Hogs were shackled by a leg to overhead conveyor belts, jabbed in their jugular veins, sometimes dumped alive into scalding water. The societies pressured meat packers into joining a committee on humane slaughter that achieved some innovations, e.g., some packinghouses began using a captive bolt pistol, which fires a metal rod into...
...F8U1 Crusader fighters out of steam catapults into a Mediterranean haze amid jet engine roars, catapult cracks, clouds of hissing white steam. The mission: to show the silver of Navy air power over Lebanon. But Saratoga's jet pilots, like all Navy pilots off Lebanon, got word to steer clear of a certain point just south of the predominantly Moslem port of Tripoli. Reason: a Nasserite rebel sniper holed up there had scored so many hits on Navy planes with .30-and .50-cal. ammunition that Navy pilots were calling him "Annie Oakley." Navy orders: "Don't shoot...