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...James Schlesinger nonetheless argued that Graham Martin, the U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam, should begin evacuating the remaining Americans in Saigon and sympathetic Vietnamese. So little was done, though, that Lionel Rosenblatt and Craig Johnstone, two mid-level State Department officers in Washington, made a desperate effort to short-circuit the bureaucracy. They requested leave and hopped a commercial flight to Saigon to organize an unofficial rescue mission. Arriving at the embassy on April 22, they learned that orders were out for their arrest. They posed as French businessmen, holing up in an empty apartment found for them by sympathetic...
...from putting a show together. "Puppets are very therapeutic," said Jenty Wood '95, while working on a new wire frame for an "Elvis" puppet. "It's sort of like Odyssey of the Mind, like in high school," explains Martin. "Last time I got to set up an entire parallel circuit for the Ewok's little red eyes...it's a chance just to do something completely different with your mind...
...book, which suggests that alien abductions may be real, catapulted Mack--a psychiatrist at Cambridge Hospital--into the national spotlight and onto the talk show circuit...
Superconducting materials, when cooled to below 100 degrees Kelvin, can carry current without any resistance. This means that once a current is being driven around a circuit of superconducting material, it no longer requires a voltage source to continue its motion...
...expressed delight with her music.Last summer while performing, an "intriguing,attractive woman was quietly singing harmony whileI performed. After the show she came up to me andtold me how much she liked the show." As it turnedout, that woman was Sarah Hickman, a well-knownmusician on the Country-Western circuit and formermember of the Dixie Chicks. Coats was surprised;"I have a few of her CD's, but I didn't recognizeher at first." Although receiving compliments onthe street is stimulating and rewarding, Coatsadmits that it is difficult to keep a professionaldistance, making a performer more vulnerable whenon the street...