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...ultraviolet radiation. Samples of the thin, peculiar air near the top of the atmosphere were captured for analysis. Cosmic rays were counted and measured while still fresh from space. Some rockets shot out puffs of smoke, so that observers could measure high-altitude winds by the drift...
...other books, historical figures drift in & out of the story, blending indistinguishably with the figments of Author Sinclair's imagination. Among them: Hitler, Marshal Kesselring, Roosevelt, Harry Hopkins, Mrs. Roosevelt, General Patton, General Donovan. They seem much less real than the imaginary characters...
...arms to Israel. "The Arabs," declaimed Syria's Faris el Khoury in reply, "are ready to be killed by your atomic bombs." Khoury and everyone else knew that it would not come to that. But the U.S. and Britain (if it continued to arm Arab states) might easily drift into fighting each other by Jewish and Arab proxies: Or, if Britain joined the U.S. in sanctions against the Arabs, the last chance of winning Arab friendship for the Western powers might be lost. The sole winner, in either case, would be Russia...
Last week, after an all-day church service and tearful farewells, they were ready to go. Mrs. Hildebrand's son Henry, 40, spoke for the others: "We must do something to keep our way of life. Children don't believe as their fathers did. They drift to the cities. Some follow the trades, even become lawyers, which is forbidden in our belief. We want to live as the Bible taught...
There was another tribute that might have pleased Gandhi even more: Moslem coolies were working at New Delhi's railway station again. A few Moslems had begun to drift back to their old farms. In twelve weeks there had been only one communal riot in all India...