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...affair made in tabloid heaven: stripteaser Blaze Starr ("Miss Spontaneous Combustion, and I do mean bustion!") and Earl K. Long, fine Governor of the great state of Louisiana. Long was too full of his princely power to be discreet about his indiscretions. Blaze could have told him -- and in this lengthy, clever, depressing film she does -- that "your political instincts are clouded by the aroma of my perfume." By 1959, when Long's campaign slogan was the forthright "I ain't crazy," his liaison with the stripper was as controversial as his tax evasion and support for Negro voting rights...
...strategic power held a vast advantage over the Soviets. Directly related to this war memory is Russia's intense desire to keep Germany split. In a sense, Soviet domination of Eastern Europe is justified in the Russian view as a "buffer zone," with E. Germany serving as the forward bustion between the homeland and any future aggression. Four, even paranoia, of a reunited Germany, backed by the United States, rules Russian policy concerning Europe. The Soviets therefore viewed the talks as a means of essentially ratifying the postwar occupational boundaries, and reducing the U.S. European presence in support of West...
...engineer involved with curbing industrial air pollution, I have become increasingly convinced that a great deal of our pollution is caused by cars and trucks. Your story confirms my suspicions. One answer would be a vehicle combining a conventional internal com- bustion engine and an electric engine with batteries. In the country the car could be propelled by the internal combustion engine and at the same time charge up the batteries. At points on the highways ap- proaching metropolitan areas, signs would warn the driver to switch to electric propulsion. He would then have enough electric power to carry...
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