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...sister, hair in corn-rolls, and wearing traditional African clothes, kneels to place a blanket on the ground. Her husband tenderly places their baby on the blanket...

Author: By Cynthia Bellamy, | Title: African Liberation Day | 7/14/1972 | See Source »

...sheer cost of existence is staggering. The best hotels are exorbitantly expensive; the less desirable hotels provide few services for a slightly smaller nightly rate. Everywhere there are gimmicks and sometimes blanket policies affect the hotels. For instance, some penalize guests who are discovered with liquor bought outside the hotel in their rooms. The difference in price between liquor outside and inside the hotel proper usually runs about 100 per cent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Miami Starts Slowly . . . . . . McGovern Is Optimistic | 7/11/1972 | See Source »

...original fuel (fissionable uranium 235, or plutonium) is surrounded by a "blanket" of nonfissionable uranium 238, which absorbs neutrons from the chain reaction in the core. These neutrons transmute the U-238 in the blanket into plutonium, which can fuel another breeder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Energy Crisis: Are We Running Out? | 6/12/1972 | See Source »

...Correspondent Joseph Kane. Near by. Secret Service Agent Nicholas Zarvos clutched a wound in his throat. Dora Thompson, a local Wallace worker, slumped to the ground with a bullet in her right leg. Billy Grammer's rendition of Under the Double Eagle stopped in mid-bar. As a blanket of police smothered Bremer, there were shrieks and isolated cries of "Kill him! Kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: George Wallace's Appointment in Laurel | 5/29/1972 | See Source »

...Barnesville's more redoubtable matrons, Mrs. Norma Schuster and Mrs. Aida Rissi, are ready to argue in court that this agreement never envisaged equipment as mighty as the Gem, which requires that the highway be closed for 24 hours and covered with a 12-ft. protective blanket of earth while the Gem creeps across it at ½ m.p.h...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Why Does the Gem Cross the Road? | 5/15/1972 | See Source »

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