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...Miami and beyond Puerto Rico on the south. It has been known variously as the Triangle of Death, the Devil's Triangle and the Hoodoo Sea. Berlitz reports that some 100 ships and planes carrying a total of more than 1,000 persons have mysteriously disappeared without a trace while traversing the triangle, most of them since 1945. Those statistics may well be the most indisputable facts in the book...
...triangle. "It is like being hit by a tornado," he says. "Nice weather conditions in the area lull you into a sense of false security." Other experts point out that the swift current of the Gulf Stream quickly carries debris far from an accident site; "lost without a trace" thus becomes easily understandable...
...Ford II called for a "decisive change in Government policy" to avoid "potential disaster"; he asked for a 10% across-the-board cut in federal income taxes. A do-something-quick mood also was evident among the members of TIME's Board of Economists as they gathered to trace the likely course of the economy for the year ahead. Tax Expert Joseph Pechman described the situation as "desperate," and Arthur Okun, former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, worried that the economy "is in a tailspin." Liberals Robert Triffin and Robert Nathan showed their concern by wearing BATH...
Some Reservations. Under pointed questioning from the Senators, who were determined not to let him off so easily as last time, Rockefeller responded with an adroit mixture of humility and hyperbole, stout defense and tactical retreat. With his customary bonhomie and no trace of arrogance, he offered a fascinating glimpse into the Rockefeller mind and lifestyle, moving G.O.P. Senator Mark O. Hatfield to comment that he had learned a lot about "the Rockefeller person." The revelations were apparently to Rocky's advantage. At the end of his first day of testimony, even his most persistent critic on the committee...
...might have done the damage. He asked a few questions about how the food was handled and was satisfied that everything and everyone in the kitchen was spic and span. And he ran a stool test on one stricken student and was pleased to find that there was no trace of anything embarrassing, except that the stool test could not reveal the embarrassing substances anyway...