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...basis. One visitor to the embassy during the Shriver tenure recalls a telling vignette: "Little Mark Shriver, who was about four, was riding his tricycle around the inlaid-marble foyer where toys were strewn about. Phones were ringing and a secretary was giving instructions. Eunice scooped up Mark to dash to the airport. The look of disapproval that crossed the butler's face as he viewed this scene was memorable...
...weakened but did not block the flow of muons to the detectors 160 yds. away. Arnold had in effect devised a simple Morse telegraph system. By appropriately timing the intervals during which the metal was in the beam, he could, for instance, send the letter V (dot-dot-dot-dash). With a more complex system, Arnold explains, a muon beam could be sufficiently modulated to carry complete Teletype messages, voice conversations and perhaps even television images...
...maintain a lively pace and thus enthusiastic interest, soon dissipates as one walks away from the play, appearing frenetic in retrospect. And the short developed one-liners which inevitably rise in frenzy to a punch line grow tiresome in their episodic pace, the constant up, down, bang, slap dash, stage clearing, re-engagement of one's attention once more...
Track and field will dominate the second part of the Munich program. To the winner of the men's 100-meter dash traditionally goes the title of "world's fastest human." Early this year, when U.S. sprinters were rising and falling like imperfect souffles, it looked as if the title might go to a Russian for the first time. Valery Borzov, from the little Ukrainian town of Novaya Kakhovka, had beaten every international runner to face him in three seasons. If anyone could conquer him by the time the Games began, it seemed it might be the "Southern...
...best flavors seem to be on sabbatical all the time, like your favorite professors. Mandarin Chocolate Sherbet Fudge Brownie, two of the very best, have been gone for what seems like an eternity (actually, since May). Glossy-black, the Mandarin Chocolate tastes of semi-sweet chocolate with a dash of Grand Marnier, the Fudge Brownie is luxurious...