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Moses declared that the Federal government has the power to secure such reforms. "The big question," he said, "is whether it is willing to probe into our whole system of law, whether it is willing to weigh its concept of the law and the sanctity of the Federal system against the lives of the people being killed in Mississippi...
...night-light scopes have $18 million of development behind them, and they come in three sizes. The smallest, which fits on a rifle or can be used as a hand telescope" weighs only 51 lbs., including its 6-volt batteries. Larger, 20-lb. scopes with a wider field of view are meant for use with recoilless rifles or other crew-handled weapons. The biggest scopes weigh 40 lbs. and sit fatly on tripods. Through their wide-angle lenses, a commander can keep track of the stumbling confusion of a night battle. He can see his own forces along with...
This was the Yale team, packed with 18 lettermen and a bunch of good sophomores, that was supposed to be the leading contender for the Ivy championship. Harvard's inexperienced line was going to weigh the Crimson down...
...When you weigh 251 Ibs.," he says, "there's no sense in trying to run around smaller people. I just run through them." Against the San Diego Chargers earlier this season, Gilchrist caught a swing pass from Quarterback Kemp. Nobody was fooled. One after another, four defenders piled on top of Cookie. He finally went down-after staggering...
Improved Vostok. All of which is little help in deciding whether the Sunrise was entirely new or merely an improved version of the standard one-man Vostok-type spaceships. These are believed to weigh 10,000 Ibs., which is more than three times as much as the Mercury capsule (3,000 Ibs.) that orbited U.S. Astronaut Leroy Gordon Cooper for 34 hours and 20 minutes; they could surely be modified to hold three men for a 24-hour flight. Senator Anderson suspects that the Sunrise weighed 15,000 Ibs., but even at that weight, it could be orbited by launching...