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...assurances were not reassuring to Negroes. Arthur D. Shores, a wealthy attorney and political wheeler-dealer who is one of five Negroes on the local Chamber of Commerce, said during one lull in the dialogue with city officials, "It's really hard to trust them after so much foot-dragging...
...hours after Powell entered his closed-door confrontation with the rebellious committee, the chamber was opened. The lions were licking their chops. Oddly enough, Daniel was also smacking his lips. Later, in his office, Powell sipped-appropriately-at a Jack Daniel, without soda, and allowed that "the noose slipped...
...this ditch for Mike!" shouted Mississippi's John Bell Williams, and minutes later, a mighty chorus of "ayes" echoed through the House chamber. The "ditch" is a projected 120-mile waterway that will connect Lake Erie with the Ohio River at a cost estimated as high as $3 billion. The project has a flock of critics. But its sponsor is Ohio Democrat Mike Kirwan, 79, the Congressman responsible each year for doling out some $4 billion in pork-barrel projects to his colleagues, and most House members would sooner abandon Panama than damn Kirwan's canal...
...Aerodrome suggests that Warner is a writer of extraordinary, controlled power who levies on his work the totalitarian discipline that it requires and deserves. Anyone rereading The Aerodrome will be struck by how firmly Warner's tolling cadences have lodged in the echo chamber of the mind, and how rewarding it is to hear them again...
Because the Brookhaven bubble chamber has a fixed magnetic field, the positive pions that Franzini studied always curved in one direction, while the negative pions went the other way. If the field had been uneven for any reason, the higher positive-pion energy levels detected at Brookhaven might well have been erroneous. In the CERN spark chamber, the magnetic field was periodically reversed to make sure that positive and negative pions would both be subject to any variations in the field...