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...board. In any case, putting marshals aboard the hundreds of flights daily that might be skyjacked would be prohibitively costly. The wildest potential remedies include a trap door that would drop the skyjacker into the blue yonder at the push of a button, or hidden circuits that would stun him with an electric shock. But a passenger or stewardess could be inadvertently zapped as readily as the culprit...
...techniques used on prisoners by the Communists today have become painfully familiar, even though the beatings, threats and psychological pressures given Bucher and his crew were so horrifying as to stun the world anew last week. To some extent, the techniques consist of old-fashioned torture protracted and refined, in a mixture of mental and physical ordeals. The P.O.W. may be kept in utter isolation or thrust into a cell group without a shred of privacy. He may be forced to sit or stand in the same position for hours on end until his bodily functions go awry. His interrogators...
Dartmouth thwarted the Crimson rushes and then shocked Harvard by jumping out to a 1-0 lead on a goal off senior Bill Diercks, playing in place of Bruce Durno. The Big Green went into the dressing room with its 1-0 lead and came out to stun the Crimson with two more scores...
...Rutgers game was perhaps Harvard's best of the season, especially the second half. Trailing by four at halftime, the Crimson rallied behind 6-4 leaper Ernest Hardy to stun a Rutgers team which had beaten Princeton at Princeton--not an easy task. With the Scarlets' 6-7 star Bob Greacen in foul trouble, Hardy controlled the backboards, and hard-driving sophomore Dale Dover led the scoring...
Czechoslovakia has followed the pattern. Czech artists initiated the process of liberalization by gradually expanding the limits of the creative freedom allowed them by the state. They have produced movies, for example, of such sensitivity and taste as to stun the West. This freedom has since spilled over into the political realm--till today there is talk of establishing non-Communist "opposition" parties...