Word: excepts
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Chemical and biological weapons are now being tested by at least 13 nations, including Britain, France, and Sweden, as well as the U.S. and Russia. The situation obviously calls for international control agreements. Pending that millennium, the U.S. probably has no choice except to continue investigating potential C-B weapons. But the Pentagon could quiet widespread fears by doing more to prove to the public that its programs are indeed primarily designed for defense and protection. The Army could begin by ending some of the secrecy-and deliberate distortion-that has marred its past record. While full public disclosure...
Then, secure from prying eyes, except for the undetermined number of police and press infiltrators dotted throughout the hall, the delegates were free to tear S.D.S. apart-mostly in barely endurable rhetoric larded with phrases like "the right of self-determination for internal colonies." The real issue was which faction will determine the future course of S.D.S...
Most nights, Moscow's Estrada Theater is alive and kicking with song-and-dance troupes. For the past two months, though, sellout crowds have packed the old hall to watch two men sit for hours at a table, each exquisitely immobile except for an occasional flick of the wrist. A whole line of swiveling chorines could not have elicited more excitement than those flicks, for the event was the world championship of chess, the No. 1 sport and all-round mania of the Soviet Union...
...evidence given in the novel, this judgment of mankind is accurate. The book's human beings- except for a few dolphinlike characters necessary to the plot-are consistently sub-cetaceous in intelligence, honor, aquatic ability and sexual inventiveness. The dolphins are tiptop in every department, as Robert Merle, a French writer of some past distinction, is at pains to demonstrate, taking the departments one by one. In fact, in the very long sections of the book justly given over to praise for the dolphins' character and accomplishments, only two bits of dolphin lore escape specific mention. The first...
...Koster outlines the story. A touring symphony orchestra is about to return to New York to put on a charity program "for crippled children." The cymbal player comes down with a contagious disease in Moscow ("We can work out the disease later"), and the whole orchestra is quarantined-all except its Lenny Bernstein-type conductor. He rushes home but cannot find a substitute orchestra and is about to give up. Suddenly, "the president of the charity comes to plead with him against cancellation. In his arms he is carrying a small boy-with braces on his legs." Lenny hastily whips...