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...permits the Secretary of Defense to label as a defense facility "any plant, factory, industry, public utility, mine, laboratory, educational institution, research organization, railroad, airport, pier, waterfront installation, canal, dam, bridge, highway, vessel, aircraft, vehicle, or pipenne" from which suspected personnel may be barred or removed...
...years she has had an enviable underground reputation, which Play it As It Lays will probably bring to the surface. Part of the attraction is consistency -Joan never flinches from repeating herself. Didion addicts feel they know all about her eccentricities: the preoccupation with striped sheets and the Hoover Dam, the way she regards hair brushing as a form of existential prayer...
...psyched up by their own percussion accompaniment to the war dance. Hitler broadcast Wagner's pulsating nationalistic themes. So now, since Thunderclap Newman is telling us "we gotta get it together because the revolution's here," we should begin to feel that musical high-energy rush bursting through the dam. Singles such as "Seize the Time" and albums such as "The Last Poc?s" are the adrenalin of the black community. Everywhere liberals and radicals are being energized to a higher revolutionary level by the Jefferson Airplane's Volunteers album: among the lyrics on the first...
...Pedernales River shimmers under a fiery sun, but runs clear and full in the shade of the live oaks on the L.B.J. ranch. Cars, campers and minibuses drive past grazing cattle, cross the waterfall dam off Ranch Road One and turn toward the five-room cottage where the 36th President of the U.S. was born...
...fabric of international cultural cooperation that had survived many other political and ideological shocks. For its part, Egypt lost the admission charges that U.S. museums had been prepared to donate to a UNESCO project for rescuing the temples of Philae from inundation by the waters of the Aswan High Dam. But the chief losers were U.S. art lovers. Among the masterpieces they had been about to see were many that had never before left Egypt...