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Hargis attacked the NAACP as a "political pressure group, a powerful left-wing outfit for racial agitation." Boasting that the Christian Crusade has a higher membership than the "association for the agitation of colored people," he recommended that "fiery patriots should react not by bopping them over the head, but by ignoring them...
...week inter-vale. Among the first candidates this law would affect were the Senatorial contenders Ted Kennedy and George Lodge. Presumably, the prospect of campaign finances being open for public inspection would inhibit the candidates and their committees from amassing distastefully large expenditures. The public would be likely to react against one canddate who was spending two or three times as much as another...
...queasy during recent testimony before a congressional committee that airline pilots read magazines, played cards and lallygagged with stewardesses while in flight.* Says R. L. Loesch, flight test chief for Boeing Airplane Co.: "Most crashes are caused by the human element ... the inability of the crew to react to an emergency." Whatever the cause, the chilling fact remained that in a single week 211 persons, including 65 Americans, had died in seven major air crashes around the world. Among them...
...gave the title Tradition. There is a dumpy dwarf called Uncle Sam, and an extraordinarily graceful Man with a Kite. Durchanek has also done a robust George Washington, who gazes in bewilderment at a large falcon chained to his wrist. This, he explains, is the way Washington might react if he came back to America today. "I wonder what he would say. He might say, 'My, my, what a bird you've got by the tail. Where are you going...
...also make exotic high-energy fuels that cannot be manufactured in any other way-fuels with unfamiliar names that are now only whispered because of stringent Air Force secrecy. The big trick is to control accurately the speed of the ions. If they move too slowly, they do not react; if they move too fast, they break up the target molecules and form unwanted products...