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...there were some sighs of surprise. The citizens of Bradner, Ohio, could hardly believe their eyes when they opened their utility bills from the board of public affairs. All were stamped MERRY CHRISTMAS! PAID. Explained Board Chairman Dick Fairbanks, thinking perhaps of three other government officials who bore gifts to Bethlehem during the same season long ago: "We were running a surplus, and this just seemed like a good idea...
...welcome Brezhnev received. Though he was accorded the obligatory Chief of State reception at New Delhi's Palam Airport, where he was met by the Prime Minister, only a trickle of people turned out to greet him. Missing were the throngs who, during his 1973 visit, bore placards with sentiments like WELCOME BACK COMRADE BREZHNEV - TRUE FRIEND OF INDIA. The ailing 73-year-old Soviet leader, who had difficulty in walking unassisted, also experienced problems in reaching his residence. Instead of a triumphal motorcade, police had to whisk the Soviet leader through the back streets of the capital...
Where, in its preparation, the film became mushy misanthropy one cannot tell. It can certainly be said that Popeye will bore children and offend adults who fondly remember the original. It is a travesty to hear Williams warble the classic "I yam what I yam" line in one of Harry Nilsson's many witless songs. "I'm not the man I was" would be a more appropriate lyric. Or maybe, "What have they done...
Conversion to Catholicism came through odd circumstances. She lived with an atheist whose "ardent love of creation brought me to the Creator of all things." But when she bore the man's daughter, she sought baptism: "I was not going to have her floundering through many years as I had done, doubting, un disciplined and amoral. For myself I prayed for the gift of faith." It came. In 1927 she left the father of her child and was baptized in the Catholic Church...
...presses one rail against the other, confining the magnetic field between them in an ever smaller space and imparting still greater velocity to plasma and projectile. Teams led by Physicists Ronald Hawke and Max Fowler have fired half-inch projectiles down a railgun's square-bore barrel at an estimated 10 km per sec. They believe velocities of 150 km per sec. could be reached...