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When the music stops, the sentries radio for help. First a yellow illumination shell goes up from mortars, followed by diamond-white flares from planes overhead. Then come the "freight trains"-the wheeoosh of friendly artillery shells rushing overhead toward a suspect marsh near by. Who is killed? Who knows...
The low-volume, high-profit luxury car has proved to be an ideal vehicle for market testing Detroit's expensive new accessories and styling ideas. Hydra-Matic, the first successful automatic transmission, started out on the Cadillac; so did the first auto tail fins, which spread through the industry...
The appearance of his book was greeted with cool reviews. Marius Bewley, writing for the New York Review of Books, said, "In the end, neither a sharper definition of the American essence nor a new illumination of our historical past, is achieved...One regrets that a scholar of professor Jones...
As a tract, the novel's message is that U.S. connivance at the ousting and murder of Diem was immoral, unwise, and possibly fatal to all further hope of saving South Viet Nam for the West. All these points are certainly arguable and may well even be true. But...
Actually, the demands placed on modern stained glass exceed even those imposed on Gothic craftsmanship. For Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, Loire constructed 22,000 foot-square glass blocks. No two are alike; all are completely abstract. The canons of modern architecture can make a well-lit garage...