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Once the black hole was positioned in a permanent orbit around the earth, its gravity could be tapped. From a distance of 100 yds. or so-far enough away to avoid being drawn into the black hole -an automatic firing mechanism on a spacecraft orbiting near by would aim tiny pellets of matter at it. Almost any material would do. As each pellet plunged toward the black hole, it would be squeezed and heated by the gravitational field to tremendously high temperatures, perhaps 100 million degrees...
...Audit. For all the activity, however, Richard Nixon was in fact on vacation. Most of the week he stayed secluded behind the walls of the windswept presidential compound. Some days he did not even walk the 100 yds. from his Spanish-style house to his office; often he would telephone members of the skeleton staff that accompanied him to California rather than meet with them in person. He spent a quiet New Year's Eve with Wife Pat and Daughter Tricia, then devoted the next day to watching televised bowl games with his close friend Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo...
...about 120. The pros are allowed 30 seconds between plays-compared to 25 in college-and they do not get a brief time out after every first down. Before Notre Dame won 24-23, the lead changed hands six times. Notre Dame Quarterback Tom Clements dashed for 74 yds. on 15 carries, and Alabama's second-string quarterback, Richard Todd, added a spectacular of his own when he caught a touchdown pass...
...precise habits, Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco had followed an almost unvarying schedule long before his inauguration last June as Spain's President and Prime Minister. Every morning about 9, his Dodge Dart would park in front of Madrid's San Francisco de Borja Church, only 300 yds. from his home, and Carrero Blanco, 70, would enter the church for Mass. Approximately 45 minutes later, he would leave for his office in the Paseo de la Castellana. In the seething Spain of 1973 such predictability is not always a virtue. Carrero Blanco last week fell victim to a bomb...
...play football just the way he lives. Only twelve years ago, the odds that 14-year-old O.J. would get out of the principal's office on any given day without punishment were about as good as the odds last July that he would gain 1,800 yds. He and his roughneck buddies at Galileo High School in San Francisco were caught running a crap game in the boys' room. After the dice players had been delivered to the principal and their offense fully described, O.J. started out the door. "Where are you going?" demanded the principal...