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...appreciate the extended knowledge I gain from coaching two sports, but as the programs improve, the students expect more and demand more--sometimes I feel I've created a hydra--slash one problem off and another two appear," laughs Fish...
...scores is secondary to Smith's principal task: lucidly explaining and defending the SALT process at a time when it and its future are in considerable jeopardy. Smith has his regrets. He argues that the U.S. made a tragic mistake in passing up the opportunity to behead the hydra of multiple warheads...
...pastels and plastics, superhighways and suburban tracts. The entire culture seemed to have teen-age glands. New, unsettling dimensions suddenly opened: the interstate highway system, the picture window, the grainy little black-and-white universe of television. Gas was cheap, and bright big-finned Detroit cars with Dynaflow or Hydra-Matic swooshed Americans up and down the landscape in rhapsodies of mobility, well-being and heedlessness. In 1954, Oklahoma A & M College surveyed its students to ask their greatest fears and problems. The students answered that their greatest worry in the world was finding a parking space...
...Hydra Head's merit lies not in its style, but is its theme. Mexico's discovery of oil has raised many questions about its political and economic relations to other nations, its potential for development, and its ability to resolve domestic inequalities...
...first translated copies of The Hydra Head came to New York bookstores just three years before Carter's visit to Mexico to negotiate oil deals. Fuentes would have smiled at the results of the talks. If the author had written a sequel to The Hydra Head at that point, maybe he would have had Felix Maldonado wake up to find he had regained his original name, or perhaps an ear or a nostril...