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...Harmless Americanism." Flitting from TV studios to college campuses, Mme. Nhu argued her cause with passion. Asked if the six Buddhists who burned themselves alive did not indicate strong opposition to the Diem government, she replied eloquently, "How much stronger is the Vietnamese government, for which so many thousands of people are dying obscurely, not for the sake of publicity...
...Stationing of inspectors at rail junctions, airports and other traffic centers on both sides of the Iron Curtain to prevent the danger of surprise attack. The U.S. is interested in the idea as a possible basis for reducing Russia's often psychopathic fear of West Germany. As a harmless tranquilizer, Washington feels such an agreement could prepare the climate for other negotiations...
...medicines were potent enough to do much harm. But many of today's high-powered drugs, taken by the wrong patient or at the wrong time, can maim or kill as readily as they can cure. The most notorious example is thalidomide, which was freely sold as a harmless tranquilizer and sleeping pill...
People who got a good look at the sun's glowing corona during its recent eclipse may have seen faint veils of light trailing off into space. Appearing as harmless as thistledown, they were visible evidence of the sun's far-reaching violence. Stormy weather on the sun sometimes tosses out clouds of deadly particles, mostly protons, that can kill in a few minutes any humans riding in thin-walled spacecraft. So among the scientists who studied the corona were members of a new, specialized profession: solar meteorology. Their job is to learn to forecast solar weather...
Arabian Nights. Frederick Clegg never admits to a crude thought! He is one of England's New People, the upwardly mobile lower classes. A post office clerk, he has a harmless hobby: collecting butterflies. He lives in his dreams, especially one about a pretty girl, Miranda Grey, who is everything he is not: gay, warm and perceptive. "The dream began where she was being attacked by a man," Clegg thinks to himself in his flat, monotonous manner, "and I ran up and rescued her. Then somehow I was the man that attacked her, only I didn't hurt...