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...than 3,200 miles, is now capable of reaching most of the U.S. The reconnaissance vessel also learned that before the S59 splashed into the Pacific, the missile delivered three separate warheads. Since the SS-9, with a multiple warhead, can carry up to 15 megatons, Defense Department officials warn that it is a serious threat to U.S. missile installations. A five-megaton blast within a mile of a missile silo will destroy...
Exams. The Spaulding Slaughter has now given way to the Crumgold Finess, originated by the late Miles Crumgold, Harry and Bill Green Professor of World History. It was Dr. Crumgold's custom to warn his students will in advance of the hour exam that they were in for a "toughie." As the day approached, he would start hinting at some of the incredibly intricate questions students should prepare for, and with one lecture to go he would--in a burst of charity--pass out a list of relevant items. The actual exam then consisted of a single question, typically...
...that Sunday, about 13 hours after TIME had closed in New York, Rademaekers called the editors to warn that, with a third of the vote counted, De Gaulle seemed likely to lose the election. With that, a crew of editors, writers and researchers set out to describe and dissect the fall of De Gaulle in a two-page report that appeared in last week's TIME. No other newsmagazine carried a line on that epochal event...
...policemen left Mem Hall at about 4:52 a.m., arrived in the Yard by 4:56 a.m., and proceded to clear the steps of people and set up a perimeter around the building. He said that it was Colonel Murgia of the State Police who instructed Dean Glimp to warn the occupants, and that he himself entered the building by the southeast door with the State Police at 5:02 or 5:03 a.m. Under cross-examination, Hallice said that when he entered the building, police at the southwest entrance were already working on the chain on the door...
...first pinpoints a radar site and then, by analyzing the signal picked up, determines just what that particular radar is used for. The experts can tell whether the radar under observation is meant to warn of possible threats from an enemy, whether it is intended to guide defensive surface-to-air missiles, or whether it is designed to control a network of offensive nuclear weapons. The aircraft's antennas, tuned to a wide range of radio frequencies used in military communications, can overhear conversations between major command posts 200 miles away and thus plot troop movements and combat readiness...