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...various relationships are said to stem from an initial disappointment, what Lou in her autobiography calls "The Experience of God." Pfeiffer writes: "The little Louise van Salome endowed her God with so intense a reality that His -- inevitable -- failure to appear when first challenged to do so cast the pall of being abandoned by God....over this child and her entire future." Accordingly Lou's successive mentors served the substitute function. From her childhood tutor, a pastor 25 years her elder, to her husband, who was "never her husband in the accepted sense of the word," to the Ur-father...
...were propped by the investment of American-based oli companies, who provided needed foreign exchange and in some cases made direct payments to the Portuguese military. Several companies were involved, but Harvard owned a large block of stock in one of them, Gulf Oil, and it was here that PALL decided to use some judo...
...have made a health-harming and aesthetic mess of things is undeniable. But calling a screaming halt to auto use would be more destructive still." Los Angeles' neighbors disagree. The cities of Riverside and San Bernardino, which filed the suit to speed EPA action, are suffocating under a pall of Los Angeles' pollutants; they lie at the end of a natural funnel east of L.A.-and the prevailing winds blow from the west. Says their lawyer, Mary Nichols: "They see the Clean Air Act as their only hope...
...screaming, others digging frantically, trying to unearth trapped relatives, still others ripping up their pajamas to use as bandages. One young mother walked in the street clutching her dead baby to her chest while her husband strode zombie-like at her side." Next day, the city was under a pall of smoke and red dust. Thousands of refugees crowded the highways, carrying what belongings they had been able to save. Surveying the damage, as vultures circled over a 320-block wasteland that had been designated a "contaminated area," Lieut. Colonel José Alagret, commander of Nicaragua's army engineers...
...pall of tear gas hung over Santiago last week. Soldiers toting submachine guns stood on nearly every street corner, and enforced a midnight-to-dawn curfew. Half the city seemed out on strike -truckers, taxi owners, and even a majority of doctors, dentists, lawyers, engineers, pharmacists and maritime pilots. In a television appeal, beleaguered President Salvador Allende Gossens declared that the country was on "the brink of civil...