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...Carter then suspended the rest of his campaign schedule and flew back to Washington to preside at an 8 a m. meeting that included Muskie, Vice President Walter Mondale, Defense Secretary Harold Brown and National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. After almost two hours, Press Secretary Jody Powell, his face pale and lined with tension, emerged to make a brief, cautious and laconic report to the press. The Administration had yet to receive an official translation of the resolution voted by the Majlis, he explained. Therefore the U.S. Government would have no official reaction until "additional information becomes available through...
...deep crater has long since been filled in to prevent further radiation. The "pearls of Trinity" - ceramic-like green glass, or Trinitite, formed from the sand by the enormous blast of heat - have been mostly buried or stolen by souvenir hunters. A few relics remain, though, sparkling in the pale sun, and visitors still filch them, cramming the radioactive rocks into their pockets...
...survived past threats. In the second half of the 18th century, it was looted of precious stones, gold panels and two silver doors. The elements have also taken their toll. But these earlier assaults may pale beside the damage that could come from the industrialization of Agra (pop. 1,250,000), which creates great clouds of pollutants. Worse still, the Taj is located in the valley of the Yamuna River, where atmospheric inversions trap corrosive agents for days at a time...
...Murphy didn't look bad till the last 1-3/4 mile," McCurdy said. "I've never seen Murph look so tired and pale as he did with half-a-mile to go--and that was when he started to make his move...
Before Bath, there is an innocence to Gainsborough's portraits that occasionally looks almost spectral: the early figures of Heneage Lloyd and His Sister, round-eyed adolescents in a rococo garden, look like large pale dolls haunting an artificial landscape. Confidence came with his absorption of the grand manner. With access to the big houses, the young painter could see the work of Rubens, Van Dyck and Claude. He rapidly learned to deal with the social mask. Those pink, smooth, patrician egg faces, the men a little knobbly of jaw and hooded of eyelid, with their "cold pleasant stares...