Word: onslaught
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...last week. Each day brought bad news about hard fact and worse rumors about impending defections in Congress of the men and women on whose verdict Nixon's lease in office hangs. The White House staff seemed to have no strategy or ideas on how to stem the onslaught...
...course, one cannot complete the argument that religious faith promotes social and intellectual health unless he can demonstrate the converse, that the onslaught of atheism in our own century has been accompanied by decline on nearly all fronts. The arguments are obvious as regards war and social decay, but very obscure in the matter of scientific progress. Too many still confuse the undoubted technological progress of our times with increments of scientific theory...
This year, faced with the prospect of another onslaught of Americans setting out in a fit of peak to make it to the top of Whitney, the Forest Service has reluctantly limited the number of overnight climbers to 75 a day. Reservations are required. But forget about Fridays and Saturdays through August. Whitney is already booked solid. Give Mount Kilimanjaro a call...
...been married for 17 years and is the father of four. "My wife Tricia, she's the oldest. The children are Belinda, 16, Murray, 14, Adam, 12, and Toby, who will be 10 this year if we let him." Because of his family, Dale is undecided about the onslaught of American offers since his Scapino triumph. "I am very selfish about family," he says. "I have only another few years until the children leave." Then, too, Director Dunlop is talking about a possible Jim Dale Henry...
RUSSIANS TO THE RESCUE. As Szulc tells it, the Soviets played a much bigger role in salvaging the stalled Viet Nam negotiations than they have been credited with. The essential breakthrough came in the Soviet Union after the North Vietnamese launched their Easter offensive in 1972. The Communist onslaught created "a sense of panic in the White House" that the Saigon regime might collapse. Kissinger, who went to Moscow in April to set up Richard Nixon's May summit with Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev, tried to enlist Russian aid in containing the North Vietnamese drive. During his visit...