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...technically under arrest. But times-and his fortunes-have changed. Frondizi's first stop was a comfortable, Swiss-style chalet overlooking a lake 13 miles outside of Bariloche. But when he complained that it was too remote from his friends, the government obligingly moved him to a hotel nearer town. Frondizi's visitors, so tightly limited by the military when he was on Martin Garcia, will be limited only by Frondizi's wishes and Bariloche's remote ness from the capital...
...observer riding the spacecraft would have seen a spectacular sight. Even from 500,000 miles, Venus would be a crescent twice as high as the crescent moon. Because of its high reflectivity and nearness to the sun, it would be much brighter than any moon. As Mariner II swept nearer, its rider would have seen the crescent, growing and thickening, its glare waxing blindingly bright, until it was 35 times the diameter of the full moon as seen from the earth and more than 13,000 times as brilliant...
...with a hymn), and so far have found only 100 usable songs from the 10,000 or so contained in seven standard English hymnals. Two years ago, the Orthodox Presbyterian Church brought out a new hymnal that left out such traditional numbers as The Old Rugged Cross and Nearer, My God, to Thee. In 1966 the Methodist Church hopes to publish its first new hymnal in 31 years; more than one-fourth of the songs will be entirely new. The Lutherans revised their hymnal in 1958, and the Southern Baptists in 1956; the Baptists' publishing house, Broadman Press, plans...
...Malaysia's birth date draws nearer, Indonesia's President Sukarno is doing all he can to prevent it. His government continually blusters about intervening militarily in British Borneo. Authorities in Singapore feared that local Communists might try to sabotage British bases on the island in order to hamper British retaliation in Borneo. Sukarno is also making muscles against Malaya, which would be the dominant state in the new federation. Djakarta has excluded Malayan fishermen from their traditional fishing grounds off the coast of Sumatra. An Indonesian gunboat recently sank a fully laden rubber barge inside Malayan territorial waters...
...plastic flowers," and "alley cans." If, by technique, he made them matter, there would be no quarrel; but alass he doesn't, there are happier things to write about. Other, wiser writers, understanding that there is not enough of language for more than a part of the truth, strike nearer the heart of things...