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...spread through much of the country. Though its distribution is still spotty, it is beginning to bear the marks of a network of defensive missiles in a C-shape, with the open mouth of the C facing eastward to the vast China landmass. The system thus would be athwart practically every path that U.S. missiles -launched from silos in the continental U.S. or from aboard submarines in the Atlantic or Mediterranean -would have to cross in order to hit major cities and installations in the Soviet Union...
Gross, however, has elected to aim his book at human passions, at all the unfortunate sick who have been kept waiting in the reception room, who fell athwart the doctor's inhumane side -or thought they did-who are all too ready to believe that the surgeon's main purpose in removing an appendix is to collect a $1,500 fee. That side of medicine unfortunately exists. It is the only side revealed in this book...
...hostile Malaysia aligned with a powerful Indonesia would halt the flow of East-West shipping through one of the world's busiest waterways-the vital Strait of Malacca (see map). And since Indonesia lies athwart other passages north of the 10th Parallel, a sea voyage from Hong Kong to Rangoon would require a detour of some 7,000 miles. Should Viet Nam also fall, west bound jetliners that now fly to India via Thailand would have to be rerouted via Australia-double the distance...
...make a kind of United States of Europe." In 1947, the Marshall Plan began to give it bone and sinew. In 1950, with the Schuman Plan to pool the Continent's coal-and-steel resources, it began to stir. It envisioned nothing less than a prosperous united Europe athwart one Atlantic littoral, allied with the U.S. on the other side-two giants whose joint democratic and humane stand for freedom everywhere would be more than a match for Communism...
...wrote Mark Twain about Lake Tahoe, a 22-mile-long scenic jewel 150 miles northeast of San Francisco, and so the lake remained until about a decade ago. But it lies athwart the north-south line between two of the nation's most superlative states: the boomingest-California-and the gamblingest-Nevada. And this has been all but the ruination of Mark Twain's "noble sheet of blue water...