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...ambivalence toward a $250 million loan guarantee for the aerospace giant was widely shared on Capitol Hill and contributed to considerable confusion in the lines of battle. Such conservative Republicans as Barry Goldwater and James Buckley, who normally support the Nixon Administration on important questions, opposed the bill lest the rules of free enterprise be violated. Such liberal Democrats as Alan Cranston and Hubert Humphrey, who would otherwise oppose a government handout to big business, supported the bill out of solidarity with organized labor. In the absence of clear-cut doctrinal guidelines, the bill-which had narrowly (192-189) passed...
Next day Scott and Irwin discovered that a glass covering on a dial in the lunar module had mysteriously shattered. Although the breakage itself was inconsequential, Mission Control was anxious to have them sweep up glass fragments lest they damage the astronauts' pressure suits. The shards were collected with a piece of sticky, flypaper-like tape and a vacuum hose...
...Snuol once the rains began, yet there is plenty of evidence that ARVN departed with embarrassing haste. It left behind no fewer than 72 vehicles-including tanks, armored personnel carriers and trucks -and eleven artillery pieces. The U.S. Air Force had to bomb the abandoned but still functioning weapons lest they fall into enemy hands...
...than any birthday, but in the Anglo-Saxon households it is ignored and carefully concealed from general awareness. For six months while I was waiting for my first menstruation I toted a paper bag with diapers and pins in my school satchel. When it finally came, I suffered agonies lest anyone should guess or SMELL it or anything...
There is a time when a change occurs, You are no longer a self-conscious bystander guiltily watching blacks and women (and section leaders) struggle for self-respect but you are part of the struggle because they are part of you. And lest that sound a bit too cosmically self-indulgent, what I mean to say is that whenever you reach a person as a true friend-the kind you can hug energy into and draw hope from-you're in the thick of it, baby! There is no longer the emphasis on a "cause"' because it sounds "just...