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...bombed Knechtsand? At first, suspicion was directed at Britain's R.A.F., which used the sandbar as a bombing range after World War II. A British official assured the government of Lower Saxony that none of its planes based in Germany had been responsible. The following day London said that no R.A.F. planes based anywhere had made the bombing run. West Germany's air force insisted it had nothing to do with the incident. So did the U.S. Air Force in Europe. So did Norway, France, Denmark, Belgium and The Netherlands...
...Delighted. Even if Sooi had not brought the matter up-and thus unleashed the chain of events that was to make the 35 disputed acres such a headache to both Brussels and The Hague-things would have been confusing enough. Of all Europe's confusing enclaves, none is quite so complex. The border between the two countries runs so crazily that in one place a man can switch countries just by walking from his bedroom into his living room. The frontier slices one café's billiard table in two, and there was a time when players...
...None of the Russians' three massive Sputniks had reported the Van Allen radiation. One theory is that the Russians outsmarted themselves by refusing to tell the outside world how to interpret signals from their satellites. Since only the low parts of the Sputnik orbits were over Soviet territory, Russian scientists never got reports from high altitudes. If any of the Sputniks carried tape recorders, they apparently did not work...
...hand, discredited themselves because it seemed that their course might lead to complete estrangement of Puerto Rico from the United States, financial suicide, in effect. By the time the new Constitution took effect, Munoz had so solidified his position that he could afford to create artificially an opposition where none actually existed...
...generally takes swagger to get quick glory, even in art, and Bonnard had none. Born bourgeois in 1867, Bonnard studied law to please his father, and art to please himself. Gauguin inspired him to switch permanently to painting. He found a model named Marthe who suited him, and bundled her south to the Midi. They finally set up housekeeping in a little villa at Le Cannet overlooking terraced olive and almond groves with the Mediterranean beyond. Sea, fruit, sunshine, the glow of Marthe's flesh, the dark contrasting sheen of their dachshund, flowers, the trees and the soft airs...