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...indication whether the U.S. was preparing a retaliatory move or simply beefing up its strength in anticipation of more assaults by the North Koreans. "I'm not ruling anything in or out at all," said Defense Department Spokesman Tod R. Hullin. Added another Pentagon official: "The situation is fluid." The North Koreans ordered their forces into a state of combat readiness, saying the Americans' "premeditated scheme" at Panmunjom was "the prelude to the war adventure that the U.S. imperialist aggressors may perpetrate...
...hydraulic jacks that control his movements. The critics may term his acting mechanical, but at least the bionic baboon has seven distinct facial expressions, which is six more than the bionic man can claim. Kong's most embarrassing problem: because of leaky jacks, a steady stream of fluid oozes down his right...
That solemn judgment echoes through the works of several modern historical theorists, who point like hour hands to the parallel decline of the modern West. Oswald Spengler believed that the historical cycle-both Roman and industrial-ends in megalopolis, where man coheres "unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter of fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful ..." Arnold Toynbee, in his monumental A Study of History, charted Rome and America through similar cycles of triumph, disintegration and collapse; like the empire of Augustus and Tiberius, imperial America could end in "a schism in the soul...
...chief delegate hunter, James Baker: "We're a hundred votes ahead of them, and we're still confident of victory, but there hasn't been any spectacular development to resolve the thing once and for all." Admitted a Reagan aide: "The situation is very fluid. But if nothing happens, the President will win the nomination...
...tissues taken from disease victims and injected them into three kinds of cultures-chick embryos, human and monkey cells, and live mice. The viruses would indicate their presence by killing the living cells and by killing or infecting the mice. They would reveal their existence in the chicks indirectly. Fluid from the infected chick eggs was mixed with samples of normal animal blood to see if the embryonic cells would agglutinate, or "clump" together; if they did, it would mean that a virus was present...