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During the feverish, all-night attempt to draft a final communiqué, Indonesia's Sukarno begged the conference to support his demand for West Irian; Morocco's King Hassan II urged his claim against Mauritania. Nehru's coalition vetoed mention of either. An Arab resolution condemning Israel was knocked out by Burma's U Nu, a good friend of Ben-Gurion...
...thing." and said that he would make an instrument letdown. He made one futile pass, headed back out to sea to start another approach. "Cleared to descend to 1,400 feet." advised the Sola tower. There was no reply. Next morning, after an all-night sea and air search, the fire-gutted wreckage of "Papa Mike" was found by a farmer on the peak of 1,730-ft. Holte Heia mountain. Strewn across the mountain in their blazers were the charred bodies of Trevor Cowdell, John Wells. Reggie Chappie. Quentin Green. Alan Lee and all their schoolmates...
Close to a nuclear reactor lies a patient, his brain exposed to a beam of neutrons, while doctors watch through a window. On a dormitory roof a handful of students lift their wineglasses to toast the sunrise after an all-night question-and-answer session with a professor of aerodynamics. In a laboratory a computer expert works on a pet project: developing an artificial nose that can smell. Around the campus, research teams study the sonar system of the bat in flight, assemble atoms into crystals capable of withstanding extraordinary stress, inquire into "the feasibility of controlling manipulative devices molded...
This is a very American novel written by a Frenchman about Belgium. The U.S. note is insistently struck when Robert Drouin, a Paris TV producer, drives through an all-night snowstorm across a wide Flanders plain as featureless and flat as any Midwestern prairie. He asks directions at a roadside inn where huge transcontinental trucks cluster and the room rocks with the blare of a jukebox and the colored lights and clatter of pinball machines. Even the ancient, canal-veined city of Bruges, whose chimes and carillons sound like "pianos in the sky," has a night face of glaring neon...
...telethoned as no other had been before; now the networks were out to cover the election with facts, and themselves with glory. CBS, specifically, was straining to regain the prestige it lost when NBC won a clear victory at the July conventions. It made a strong comeback. In fierce all-night competition, both top networks did superbly. ABC, with less manpower, moved along adequately, but could not hope to compete with the other two. To most viewers, however, what mattered in the end was that TV in general covered the election in thoroughgoing detail, swiftly and well...