Word: surely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...planes are crammed with cameras, infra-red detectors, special radar, and secret electronic devices that can jam enemy radar. With special heat-sensor equipment, they can pinpoint tiny cooking fires that betray the presence of the Viet Cong. "We can't kill them all, but we can make sure Charlie has to eat cold rice," says an Air Force targeting officer. With powerful 4,500,000-candle-power flash cartridges, Recce planes can turn night into day to photograph enemy convoys sneaking down the Ho Chi Minh trail. "The object is to make Charlie walk," says another targeter...
...socks") to the Archbishop of Canterbury ("another traitor"). "O'Neill might as well try to stop Niagara Falls with a teaspoon." Paisley stormed, "as try to stop our Protestant cause." When Queen Elizabeth arrived in Belfast this month to dedicate a bridge, embittered Catholics promised retaliation; and sure enough, a twelve-pound chunk of concrete came crashing down on her car from a fourth-floor window on her parade route, luckily only denting the hood...
...Sure enough. He was no more than 20 steps inside the main entrance of GUM, the Soviet Union's largest department store, when his eyes fixed on the deep decolletages of two young sales girls. There, hanging from their necks, were glittering gold crosses. No, they said, they were not Catholics, but faithful Komsomols (Young Communists...
...They don't care anything about Latin girls," cried Miss Ecuador before the judging. "The European girls get better food, and they are the ones who are photographed," sobbed Miss Argentina. Sure enough, Miss Sweden, Margareta Arvidsson, 18, was crowned Miss Universe in Miami. No pleasing some people-she wept too. "I don't want it," she groaned. "Now I won't be able to go anywhere without a chaperone." By next morning the sea captain's daughter had recovered. Said she: "I don't remember anything about last night...
Back to the Machine. Los Angeles lawyers, to be sure, are still allowed to arrive at trial and ask for continuances, but judges now accept only substantial excuses, such as the unavoidable absence of expert medical witnesses. Continuances are granted in only 20% of civil suits, almost half the previous rate, and it may not pay to get one. Lawyers who are not ready must report back to the computer, and wait as long as three months for another trial. By contrast, the court stresses the constitutional right to speedy trial in criminal cases by guaranteeing that any defendant...