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...existence of such psychic phenomena as telepathy, psychokinesis and precognition were jubilant; in their view, Nature had bestowed upon them the recognition and respectability that the scientific establishment has so long withheld. Some skeptics were dismayed; they felt the mere publication of the report in Nature would lend legitimacy to many of the hotly disputed tenets of parapsychology...
...foreseeable future, it might as well be accepted with some degree of good cheer. The title cut kicks things off with air-raid sirens sounding, bombs exploding, and machine guns firing mixed over a breakfast conversation between husband and wife. Anderson on alto sax joins pianist John Evan to lend a madrigal-like impression to the opening few measures. The tune progresses as it deals with war's romantic side, a romanticism evoked musically by the coupling of a flowing melody (played by the strings) and a series of ascending and descending runs (banged out an Evan's piano...
...some. Ford signed into law the Brooke-Cranston bill, a measure that will pump $7.75 billion of federal funds into the sere U.S. residential mortgage market over the next twelve months. Earlier, the President had urged Congress to make available only $3 billion to federal agencies that in effect lend the money to home buyers at below-market interest rates. Some builders have talked themselves into believing that once the elections are over, the Administration will move to clamp controls on construction wages and the prices of building materials, despite the President's oft-stated opposition to wage-price...
...sandlots assimilate the Designated Hitter. Such gaudy perversions have me clinging to the Goldberg's Peanut Chews billboard which one adorned the left field wall in extinct Shibe Park's power alley. Still, there is nothing like the day-to-day exhilaration of a pennant race to lend life--whether it is endured in a crusty New England college or not a hot inner-city alley--a sharpness. Furthermore, I will be the first to castigate trivia fiends as obscurantists, conservatives, or reactionary nostalgoids...
...OPEC. This has been nicknamed "Witteveen Mark II," to distinguish it from "Witteveen Mark I," a similar fund established earlier this year with $3.4 billion. That fund will be completely exhausted by year's end, having lent its money to 18 nations. The new account will be able to lend money to advanced nations that cannot meet their oil bills, as well as to the Fourth World...