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...world's ending in a nuclear fireball than in deathly darkness, but the loss of light at noontime still suggests the extinction of life. To dream of an eclipse, many psychologists hold, is to confront fears of death and failure. A child born during such an event, contend astrologers, will be a powerful influence for evil-or for good. In Houston Sybil Leek, the witch and astrologer, computed that sun and moon were positioned to cause emotional destruction in families and earthquakes in the countryside. Also to tumble the stock market...
...some ways the Indian is worse off than the black because there is no powerful political bloc to contend with in regard to American Indians," Fields continued...
...unsettling reality now is that increasing numbers of authorities are beginning to wonder whether all that agony was worthwhile and whether integration is still a valid goal. Many Southerners can contend with some justification that skepticism is rising only because the North is beginning to feel the integration squeeze. Yet it is true that in few places in the nation is integration an unqualified success...
...third of its productive system-farming, mining, papermaking and fossil-fuel power generation, for example -to repair damage already done to the ecological system. Commoner figures that not only would the cost be high, but that production itself would suffer in the process. Most economists, on the other hand, contend that total economic output would hardly be changed, and they scoff at the idea that growth itself is the real menace. They contend that the critics have picked the wrong villain, much as Britain's ax-wielding Luddite workers did when they deliberately destroyed new machinery during the early...
...within 30 days. To help hold premium rates down under the new plan, medical payments would not be made if a driver or his passengers already had adequate coverage through Blue Cross or another insurance plan. Nor would there be compensation for "pain and suffering," which New York officials contend is often a nuisance claim used by a victim's lawyer to win more money. Damages for permanent injury or bodily dismemberment would not be paid as such, but under the proposed system victims would be compensated for lost income for the entire period of their disability...