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...that it was not just a Harmonic Convergence but an Inter-Related Convergence as well. The firing of Cox made impeachment a real possibility, but so did the removal of Agnew, often seen as Nixon's best impeachment insurance. And so did the oil embargo: by delivering a hammerblow to the American economy in the form of higher energy prices, the embargo further undermined Nixon's popularity...
...rounded up, virtually under the windows of the Vatican, and shipped off in cattle cars to Hitler's extermination camps. And within the papal apartments, according to German Playwright Rolf Hochhuth, sat a man who by a word might have stayed that mass murder. The Deputy is a hammerblow "J'accuse" hurled at Pope Pius...
...disaster, it was a serious defeat for the British. More serious still was the fact that within a fortnight Rommel had swept up many British supply dumps, was virtually munitioning his campaign at Britain's expense. Most serious of all, the Field Marshal was apparently able to strike hammerblow attacks on land in spite of heavy strafing by a superior British air force...
...Onto the auction block in Manhattan last week went a batch of trade journals. A bidder might take all or any part of the lot-the 17 units of bankrupt National Trade Journals, Inc. When the last hammerblow had fallen, the properties were in the following hands: Publisher Howard Myers bought back his Architectural Forum, aristocratic journal published in two semi-annual volumes with a yearly subscription price of $20; Reuben H. Donnelley Corp. of.Chicago (classified telephone directories) bought National Cleaner & Dyer; Industrial Press (publishers of Machinery) bought Heating & Ventilating; Interior Architecture & Decoration bought Good Furniture & Decoration; a newly organized...
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