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High Spy. Sharp-eyed aerial cameras, such as those that enabled the U-2 to chart thousands of square miles of the Soviet Union, have also moved into the realm of commerce. They spot diseased trees in a lumber company's forest, take a quick inventory of grapes while they are still on the vine, measure the size of a coal stockpile for a utility company and point to the best spot for a coal miner to dig in. The Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio even takes aerial-type shots of a steer, then analyzes the animal...
...from the battle, will not help his backers build an organization. Although he is well-known he has a good measure of Scranton-like purity. If foreign affairs appear extremely important in July, Lodge could win the nomination because of his experience, if not his overwhelming success in that realm...
...From the first page, they are fantastic, insufferable, sick; who can identify with a Shemansky? Can it be said, what's good for the Shemanskys is good for the U.S.A.? Simckes, like his Vossen Gleich, has an acute humans concern, but too limited a focus. Yet, within his unique realm, Simckes tells a grotesque and Rabelaisian tale that does create philosophic reverberations...
...from destroying the beauty of the Christmas story, Smit says, this kind of careful attention to historical detail produces a right understanding of the great event. When Christmas is stripped of fable, he claims, "a realm of overpowering truth and beauty will then be revealed, a story which is at the same time completely human and yet beyond all measure divine...
...realm of fashion, Vogue remains unsurpassed. As a "provider of discontent" (the Times reviewer again), Vogue features the slightly unattainable fashions, but its choices are still credible, unlike rival Harper's Bazaar, which is really too far out, and serves mainly to index the absurd and the extreme...