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...nationalism long has been an aspect of the Games, and deliberately so. Nor has this been as bad a thing as pundits often paint it, at least to the degree that nationalism equates with patriotism. Politics too has long been a part of the Games, without dealing them fatal harm...
Ortal concurred. "The kids here are so clever--much more so than the teachers--that I think not even the Phillips Academy can do them any harm...
...livestock feed, its abundance should help to hold down the price of meat. An equally important crop will do almost as well: the wheat harvest should come in at a near record 2.04 billion bu. This torrent of grain will not cause a glut that will harm farm prices, however, because the U.S.S.R. and drought-stricken Europe stand ready to buy the U.S. surpluses...
...Martian surface on Sept. 4, either to expand the search or to stand in for Viking 1 should something go amiss with the first lander. Scientists rate Viking's chances of a successful landing at 70%. Unlike the Apollo lunar module, which could be maneuvered out of harm's way by the astronaut pilot as it neared the moon's surface, the unmanned Viking lander must descend along a preprogrammed path all the way to its touchdown. If it encounters a large boulder, a deep crevice, too steep a slope or high winds upon landing, the craft...
...fiery leadership of someone like Lord Chatham. (Now 67, ill and half mad, he rarely even visits Westminster.) The merchants and manufacturers who depended on the ?4 million American trade were earlier among the most influential opponents of the war, but so far the hostilities have done relatively little harm, since British businessmen have found new customers in Russia, Spain and Italy for Birmingham steel, Manchester cotton and Yorkshire woolens. They seem largely unaware of Whig estimates that the fighting will cost roughly ?10 million a year (with the national debt already something like ?130 million). As for the press...