Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...going along very well," and "we are making progress." Yet even before Moscow's unexpected scheduling of the trials, U.S. officials had carefully muted their optimism about SALT. Noted one Administration aide before he left for the talks: "We don't see Geneva as make or break. We're not talking about breakthroughs. It's part of a process...
Well, the all-star break is over, the American League choked again, and it's back to business as usual for the major-league leading Red Sox. This weekend, the Sox will attempt to demolish some Western Division teams, having kicked ass in the East for the past month. The Texas Rangers will be in town tonight, followed by the Minnesota Twins on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. Sunday's game will be on Channel 38, we think, at 2. buit since the Twins, with the exception of Rod Carew, are so bad, this might be your best shot at actually...
...amendment before then. Illinois failed last month after three increasingly futile and bitter attempts; several months ago Kentucky rescinded its approval, as did South Carolina. Failing the necessary 38 states, pro-ERA factions are pursuing a bill in Congress that would extend the deadline until 1986, an unheard-of break for a Constitutional amendment. That bill may well pass, and so the ERA would, given its novel renewed lease on life, probably pass in the next few years--but realistically it could well go in the way of the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery in name, but did little else...
...former lecturer in psychology at the University of London, is the Navy's "Clockwork Orange" experiments in Naples, Italy, and San Diego: wearing a head clamp and with their eyes fixed open, so that they cannot avert their gaze, volunteers were shown gruesome films of dismemberment to break down their opposition to violence. Though the Pentagon denied conducting any such experiments, Watson thinks that his source-a Navy doctor in Naples-was telling the truth...
...young girls come into flower on the beaches. They have only one season. The following year, they are replaced by other flower-like faces which, the previous season, still belonged to little girls. For the man who looks at them, they are yearly waves whose weight and splendor break into foam over the yellow sand." The minutes stolen for reflection concern the values of action vs. creation: "I ought not to have written; if the world were clear, art would not exist...