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...beam, the starlight scope needs no light of its own. Thus it is undetectable by enemy sensors. It uses only natural light, no matter how dim-moonlight, starlight, even the faint luminescence of decaying jungle foliage. Capable of amplifying light up to 40,000 times, it literally treats the darkest night...
...smoothly in the beginning. During his first days as an announced candidate, particularly before Lyndon Johnson withdrew from the race, he wobbled a bit. His attacks on Johnson sometimes bordered on the demagogic, as when he accused the President of appealing to the nation's "darkest impulses." He realized his error and soon pulled back. He also ceased invoking Jack's memory. His very presence is enough to evoke the old mystique anyway, and the press, which had given Bobby a bad time for the way in which he entered the race, was quick to pick up his obvious...
...BLAST OF WAR 1939-1945, by Harold Macmillan. Wartime England's darkest and finest hours are remembered with wisdom and clarity in the second volume of the former Prime Minister's autobiography...
...BLAST OF WAR 1939-1945, by Harold Macmillan. Wartime England's darkest and finest hours are remembered with wisdom and clarity in the second volume of the former Prime Minister's autobiography...
...Poor-Mouthing. The darkest side of the boom is the persistence of poverty. Thirty million Americans still live on poverty-level incomes ($3,000 a year or less for a family). The aged, the nonwhite and the small farm worker are particularly hard hit. In some Negro ghettos, 28% are unemployed-a higher rate than the U.S. as a whole experienced in the depths of the Depression. In addition, problems of air and water pollution, classroom shortages, inadequate mass transportation and urban decay plague the nation...