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...volume of music that drips with sentimentality and remembrances of good things past--which may never have happened in his lifetime, but perhaps in his father's or grandfather's world, he believes--he can overcome the life of the present. The sound of the music, for him, is louder than the sounds of the factory. And it is even possible that the music which speaks of a rural, better past simultaneously holds but the promise of a free, decent community oriented future...
...diastolic, or lower reading, the doctor lets more air out of the cuff and continues to listen; the pulse momentarily gets louder and then fades. The level at which the sound of the pulse disappears is the diastolic, or the pressure in the circulatory system when the heart is relaxing and refilling...
...louder sing...
Richard Nixon often suggested that he was personally essential to world peace and prosperity, and it was a notion that played even longer and louder outside the U.S. than it did in Peoria. For many months there was general agreement in a number of foreign capitals that the relentless pursuit of Nixon through Watergate amounted to a kind of dangerously irresponsible "lynch law," as a strident London Times editorial put it a year ago. But by last week overseas perceptions of the nature of America's often puzzling struggle over Watergate had changed almost completely. As a comment...
...rumbling from Washington has been growing louder for months. "These fee arrangements," said Bruce Wilson, the Justice Department's No. 2 antitrust man, "can be viewed as little more than cartels." Added Keith Clearwaters, a deputy assistant attorney general: "There are no defenses that will save them." The target of that legal wrath is the practice among many state and local bar associations of establishing "minimum fee schedules." Now the warnings and threats have ended in action: the Justice Department has charged the Oregon State Bar Association with an illegal conspiracy "to raise, fix, stabilize and maintain fees charged...