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...doubt all of the hypotheses one can propose contain some particle of truth, but the ratio between varies greatly from person to person. As a long-term mass phenomenon, the group that the Palisades Class of '65 is supposed to represent is surprisingly hard to pin down...
...Happened have already become adults, making reasonable decisions rather than floating around in a haze of options. Their lives go on--professionals, businessmen, masseurs and missionaries--and perhaps in the end they will, in fact, change the world, incorporating their counterculture into their parents' lifestyles. It's hard to pin their rebellion down, true; but maybe that should no longer be the question one asks about them. These are, after all, living people. These profiles are pictures in motion, and the film credits are still a long...
...gathering was to be a coalition of the already-think ranks of third party conservatives. The fat-cat, somber-looking pin-striped remnants of the Reagan crusade, shunned by the Republican Party in Kansas City, were here to build a 'New Majority' on the structure of the American Independent Party. For a week they had been on the phone to Reaganites but, as a prominent conservative told me, not one Republican office-holder defected. North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms, New Hampshire Governor Meldrim Thomson, Illinois Congressman Phillip Crane--none set foot in the Hilton. 'National Review' editor William Rusher...
...point early in the eventful week, it had been so quiet at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory that scientists could hear a pin drop. Then, 214 million miles away, a pin did drop-onto the reddish soil of Mars. It fell from Viking, freeing the mechanical arm that it had jammed and enabling the lander to begin its historic life-seeking experiments. Some 19 minutes later, as telemetry confirming that the arm was no longer jammed appeared on the console screens at JPL, scientists and engineers broke into cheers. Said Meteorologist Seymour Hess: "Happiness is a functioning instrument in a spacecraft...
...decathlon athlete to truly appreciate what Jenner has done," summed up 1968 Decathlon Gold Medalist Bill Toomey. "It was total artistry, a beautiful composition." Citing the controlled intensity of Jenner's performance, Toomey added: "He was like a hand grenade ready to explode. And he held the pin until the Olympics. He was hungry, extremely motivated. That element was missing from a lot of American performances...