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...royalties he makes from books sold to his Harvard classes alone amount to almost nothing. Even in the exceedingly rare case of Reischauer's royalty income, which for one East Asian textbook reaches the $4000-mark annually, the author says the return is a "complete drop in the bucket" in terms of his annual salary. "If people want to write for money, they steer away from textbooks and concentrate on magazine articles. Royalties from academic books are inconsequential," Reischauer says...
...line goes," the coach says. "We have to develop that area. I know that we have the capacity to throw, but if the line doesn't hold up . . ." then all those preseason polls that find Harvard on top will be as valuable as a bucket with holes...
...Eight days after the landing-an interval during which Viking will monitor Martian weather and seismology and shoot the mission's first color pictures-the ingeniously conceived and packaged laboratory (which occupies about a cubic foot of space) will begin operating. The surface sampler, a power-shovel-like bucket, will be extended from Viking by a boom that can reach 10 ft. It will scoop up a sample of Martian soil, which will then be distributed to three separate chambers of the laboratory. Using nutrients, radioactive tracers and analyzing devices, the lab will look for evidence of living organisms...
Udall demonstrated in Michigan that he cannot be taken for granted; he keeps on coming. Brown showed in Maryland that he can have wide appeal. He won Scoop Jackson's lunch-bucket crowd, Mo Udall's suburban Volvo votaries, and cut deeply into Carter's ghetto constituency; Catholics also flocked to the former Jesuit seminarian...
...shoals at the end of a languorous afternoon, the wind freshened suddenly ahead of a curtain of rain. The usually placid tropical lagoon hurled water into the skiff. The three of us were drenched. Willie, a local fisherman, grinned at the adventure. Our hulking captain frowned, grabbed a bucket and handed one to me. Brando read my fear. "Don't worry," he shouted. "When the rain hits, it will flatten the sea... the weight of the rain water." Our boat sped into the wall of rain; the sea flattened, and a few minutes later we beached the boat...