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Nineteen months after "I.Q." touched off a blaze among radicals and academics, Richard J. Herrnstein, professor of Psychology, has added another log to the fire...
...Another way out is to reduce through controlled burning the amount of duff under the trees. In either case, however, delay could be perilous. Similar conditions, on a smaller scale, existed during a fire in 1970, and only the fact that the wind suddenly died down kept that blaze from becoming a holocaust...
...bottles. A Catholic church and parish house were broken into and ransacked, their religious statues smashed. Three Catholic families in Protestant areas were fire-bombed from their homes. The day left five dead, including a fireman who was shot in the chest as he arrived to fight a blaze in Sandy Row, a Protestant section of South Belfast. Tom Herron, vice chairman of the Ulster Defense Association (U.D.A.), largest of the militant Protestant organizations, brazenly declared that the day's success had been spoiled only by the British army's "indiscriminate fire on men, women and children...
When President Thieu announced the settlement last week, Saigon burst out in a blaze of color. South Viet Nam's red-striped flag suddenly appeared everywhere. Banners strung from lampposts proclaimed a great victory. But the mood of the people did not match the display. There was no dancing in the streets, or anywhere else. There were no cheers, not even any more smiles than usual. At the Givral cafe, where politics are passionately argued over tea, only a single radio carried Thieu's message, and half the customers did not pay any attention. "It is only a piece...
Finality. March 18th: "I realize nothing emotionally except when some other small immediate annoyance sets off the blaze. It is possible to live here [at Hopewell] and realize nothing about the baby. This is so removed from him. Does that sound hard and unfeeling? I feel that I am willing to barter anything for my self-control right...