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...biggest crush came in Danang, which swelled to nearly twice its normal population of 400,000 with refugees from the northern provinces after the fall of Quang Tri May 1. Fragments of families fill schools, pagodas, churches and old U.S. military barracks. Though the government distributes rice, there is never enough to eat, and women can be seen selling penny candy, gum, flashlight batteries, salt-anything to turn a small profit to fill out the spartan diet. When the bread trucks come, covered with flies, young boys sneak up, reach in and steal an extra loaf for their families...
According to theory, a supernova occurs after a giantstar- substantially more massive than the sun-has exhausted its thermonuclear fuel. The star's distended gases begin to collapse toward its center of gravity, crush together and reheat to incredible temperatures of 100 billion degrees, and then explode in a fiery outburst as bright as a billion suns. Left at the center of the supernova is a tiny (about ten miles across) star consisting of tightly packed neutrons, or a smaller "black hole"-a star so dense that its tremendous gravity prevents even light from escaping. The 1967 discovery...
...jukebox distributorship. By the time World War II hit, Wilson was rich. But he sold out everything for $250,000, joined the Air Transport Command and piloted C-47s over the Himalayan hump, probably the hairiest air route of the war. After being mustered out, he bought an Orange Crush distributorship, but it soured, and he lost $100,000. So he went back to construction and built a fortune of about $1,000,000, all the while sharpening his skills in choosing real estate that had the potential for large increases in value...
...their smokes. At one gathering, Team Member Dr. Jean Pinet passed a miniature coffin around the audience. "Put your cigarettes in it," he exhorted, "or they'll put you in one." Other experts showed graphic films of the cancerous lungs of heavy smokers. The propaganda convinced many townspeople to crush out their Gauloises and pledge, "I'll never smoke again...
Miller's answer is as strong as it is stark; the currency of conscience has only one backing-a man's lifeblood. Miller astutely recognizes that the purpose of tyranny is not to scourge the guilty but to crush the free. A tyranny must wipe out its most dangerous enemy-one man who will not save his life by confessing to a lie. Building to a powerful crescendo, The Crucible makes its hero (Robert Foxworth) face just that terrible choice. It is so easy to confess and not have to leave his wife (Martha Henry) a widow...