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...cold war. "The reason why the ethnic rivalries and aspirations surfaced so suddenly in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe is that till recently communism kept them in a time warp," says Oxford history professor Robert O'Neill. Tensions burst forth with explosive fury as soon as the lid of dictatorship was lifted...
...poets composing as they wanders the misty moors still predominates. On average, he spends about four or five months revising a poem. He describes the process as "the words [lifting] off the page." Most of his poems take their true from in revision. "You want to put the lid on [a poem], but it keeps knocking the lid off," he says. "Finally, the words just kind of get stuck...
...located, improbably enough, under the stands of the University of Arizona football stadium. In the center of the lab is a huge round furnace. To make a mirror, a complex ceramic mold is assembled inside the furnace and filled with glittering chunks of Pyrex-type glass. Once the furnace lid is sealed, the temperature will slowly ratchet up over a period of several days, at times rising no more than 2 degrees C in an hour. At 750 degrees C (1382 degrees F), when the glass is a smooth, shiny lake, the furnace starts to whirl like a merry...
...Orleans crime boss Carlos Marcello was deported in Robert Kennedy's crackdown on organized crime. An outraged Giancana began monitoring the private lives of both brothers. Along the way, the book says, Marilyn Monroe was murdered in a Mafia attempt to blow the lid off her affair with R.F.K. When that didn't play out, Giancana spent a year planning the assassination, which was carried out by a loose association of professional killers. According to the book, Oswald was a former spy sacrificed by anti- Kennedy elements in the CIA to take the fall. Then Ruby, Giancana's "Dallas representative...
...L.B.J. sent him to the eastern Mediterranean to head off a war between Turkey and Greece over Cyprus, then to Seoul to restrain President Park Chung Hee from retaliating against North Korea for a series of attacks against the South. In the spring of 1968, he helped keep the lid on Washington when the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. touched off racial conflict...