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...Croatian nationalism to their own account, in hopes of bringing Yugoslavia back under Moscow's control after Tito passes from the scene. But for the short run, the Soviets could well have a different aim in mind: to prevent the Croats from striking too many sparks in the Balkan powder keg, thus endangering progress toward detente in Europe...
...Professional ambitions and the desire to perform social services are commendable, but I cannot accept the idea that working outside the home is necessarily better than working in it. I worked seven years before I was married (I was the first industrial diamond-powder saleswoman in the U.S.) and dreamed of a time when I would have enough leisure to pursue a wide range of interests: academic subjects, painting, photography, poetry writing, reading, tennis...
...from the ashcan would be chopped into gravel-sized pieces by an enormous shredder, then run through a dryer to remove moisture. An air classifier would separate the inorganic matter (metals, glass) from the organic (paper, food wastes). The organic matter would then be ground into a sugar-fine powder and heated to a temperature...
...Balkans are still the powder keg of Europe, Macedonia may well be the fuse. The issue that could provide the spark is a century-old controversy over whether the Macedonians are a distinct strain of southern Slavs entitled to an autonomous republic within Yugoslavia, or whether they are Bulgars and should be part of Bulgaria. Bulgaria pressed its claim that the Macedonians are really Bulgars until last year, when Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev visited Sofia. After that, the Bulgarians suddenly softened their propaganda attacks against Yugoslavia over the issue...
...went ahead 110 to 101 (Crane had lost two points on fouls). It was enough to make Crane break his stoic silence. "That's just a lot of luck," he muttered to a nearby spectator. It became Crane's turn again. He dipped his fingers in talcum powder, sipped some water and hunched over his cue. Forty-nine times he hunched; 49 times the cue jabbed forward; 49 successive times a ball disappeared into a pocket. Machine Gun never got a chance to reload...