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...Good for you. Yanks! Your swift reflexes over Cuba warned Khrushchev with appalling clarity that if he tweaked the "paper tiger's" tail it could, and would if necessary, hook him instantly with nuclear claws. The Gulf of Tonkin action and reaction should serve as a similar warning to the impetuous Mao dynasty. Let's hope so, anyway. If it doesn't, then we Aussies are right in there with...
Everyone in California seems to talk about smog, but no one has been able to do much about it-until recently. Aware that the eye-irritating, lung-smothering fumes are caused largely by the tail pipe exhaust from the state's exploding auto population of 7,200,000, legislators passed a law requiring all new cars to be equipped with a state-approved exhaust control system by the beginning of the 1966 model year. Four independent manufacturers rushed in to capture the potentially huge market, spent some $20 million to develop their own antismog devices, got state approval...
...headed toward her stern. The Maddox has twin-mounted 5-in. 38s aft and two twin-mounts forward. Ogier could either swing the Maddox broadside and train one forward pair and the aft pair on the two boats or stay on course and keep the ship's tail toward them. This would permit him to fire at only one boat at a time, but it would provide a slimmer target for enemy torpedoes...
Ogier swung the ship to port. The torpedoes passed 100 yds. to starboard. For a farewell blast, the two boats sprayed away futilely with their 25-mm. machine guns, turned tail and headed toward the north...
Euripides wrote at the end of an era, and he re-examined the work of his predecessors with a quizzical air, rearranging, complicating, and at the same time exposing the flaws in their methods. He resembles the painter Caravaggio who worked at the tail end of the Renaissance when there was little more to say about Madonnas or Crucifixions; he substituted peasants with dirty feet for the idealized figures of Raphael...