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...first, Dai and his fellow students "struggled"-with posters and speeches-against a few political malfeasants in the distant government. Then the Party Central Committee announced it was necessary to repudiate the bourgeois elements that had "sneaked into the party, the government, the army and all spheres of culture." All at once there were plenty of targets right there in school. The principal singled out two teachers for attack, and the students humiliated the victims to the point of suicide...
Oceanside residents rushed to seaward windows, fearing a tidal wave; they heard only distant foghorns. Hill dwellers peered down at the San Fernando Valley and were shocked at the sight of fiery blue arcs rising from electrical explosions and plumes of water erupting from broken mains. On the valley floor, Jack Speyer dashed from his second-floor bedroom in Glendale brandishing a baseball bat, certain that a burglar was ransacking the rooms below. Twelve days overdue in her pregnancy, a woman near the quake's center knew only that labor had finally begun. At a 24-hour supermarket...
...blunt school integration, California, like many states and communities, had passed a law that banned busing of children without a parent's consent. With equal indirection, the California court upheld the busing consent regulation -but warned that school boards may, without parental agreement, still assign children to distant schools in order to achieve integration. Thus a child is no longer required to take the school bus in California. He is merely required to attend the school to which he is assigned...
...miles away. It is probable that we are unable to win the war, and that the Lao generals will wish that they had followed the lead of the Pathet Lao's Souphanouvong, and chosen a protector closer to home, because defending an "outpost" 18,000 miles distant does not have the immediacy of defending one just across your borders...
Four Americans had already trod on lunar soil, and the TV picture-the ghostly figure on the ladder, the sharp contrast between the black sky and the sun-drenched land-was strikingly familiar. Yet, for millions of viewers around the world, seeing a fellow man walking on the distant moon was still a wondrous experience. It was a dramatic reminder of what man, at his technological best, can achieve...