Word: closers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...equality it began by proclaiming self-evident. But neither this fact nor the Bicentennial's official perversion should obscure its significance. The Bicentennial is a reminder of an event that--like the Vietnamese revolution today--turned the world upside down, laying a mighty country low and bringing power closer to a small country's ordinary people. It is no accident that Ho Chi Minh should have turned, when writing his own country's declaration of independence in 1945, to the American Declaration of Independence as a rhetorical model; for its radical vision continues to challenge official platitudes and complacency...
...back in the morning," said Nick. I sank into a state of twitchy purgatory in the empty motel room as the lightning grew louder and closer. I had stopped drinking at two beers and was further from comprehension than if I had matched Nick's pace. Why had he left? The day was nearing 22 straight hours of highway unraveling followed by the unraveling of events at The Wheel. The sound of an approaching freight train rent the air, rising above the flailing of rain. That's the sound people hear when the funnel is about to scoop them...
...refuge only to find that North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops were about to take over. Communist forces in such coastal cities as Tuy Hoa, Nha Trang and Cam Ranh abruptly cut off escape routes. In international waters just offshore, U.S. cargo ships waited, unable to move in any closer to pick up the fleeing people. About 60,000, mostly defeated soldiers, made it to Ham Tan and Vung Tau, a coastal resort 50 miles southeast of Saigon that the French called Cap Saint-Jacques...
Controlled energy from nuclear fusion-joining atomic nuclei instead of splitting them as in fission-still remains what it has been for a generation: a possibility. But in a number of laboratories and one private company-KMS Industries of Ann Arbor, Mich.-scientists are moving closer to doing what they know can be done: fusing the nuclei of deuterium and tritium to create a powerful burst of energy. At KMS and the Government's Los Alamos lab, lasers are being used to "implode" deuterium pellets. Energy has been produced, but not enough to be measured accurately or drive...
...perhaps the author wants to say that politics is a lot of stale talk. Watergate flows in the book like so much flotsam. "Liddy had 50 Minoltas," remarks one character idly. Cavanaugh is amused by the fact that Vatican money financed the Watergate apartment building: "Maybe I should pay closer attention to what Monsignor Lally writes in the Pilot...