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...Constitution empowers the Congress "to provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, to suppress insurrections and repel invasions...
...train's speed increases, the magnets on the underside of the cars act like the moving armatures of an electrical generator, causing currents to flow in the aluminum strips. These currents, in turn, bu:ld magnetic fields of their own. Just as like poles of ordinary horseshoe magnets repel each other, so do the train's superconductive magnets repel their magnetic "mirror images" in the aluminum strips. In this way the train can be lifted as much as a foot off the ground. If the train drifts slightly to one side, as it will on a curve...
...film's opening sequence in which the military brass are assembled for indoctrination. A rightist general compares the disease afflicting the grapes of Greece with the sickness assaulting the body politic: party factionalism, overfree speech, alien ideas. The military, he announces, must serve as the antibodies to repel this dread invasion. What's good for plants, in other words, is good for people...
...completed until 1973 at the earliest. Other delegates thought that an independent agency could do the job more efficiently than the bureaucracy-ridden U.N. Lord Ritchie-Calder likened the process to "the opening up of the last frontier. First, adventurers go into virgin-territories to stake their claims and repel interlopers," he said. 'Then the federal marshal comes along to represent the" law, followed by the elected sheriff and a regime of law and order." What the suntanned conferees took home with them was a conviction that the law of the sea urgently needs a speedy updating...
Beyond all that, city dogs are supposed to repel burglars and muggers; high-crime areas now teem with Doberman pinschers and German shepherds. But who protects the innocent from the protectors? Last year Tokyo recorded about 5,000 complaints of dog bites from newsboys, mailmen, salesmen and bill collectors. New York's bite toll hit 25,000. Britons are so worried about rabies that they have barred all dogs and cats from entering the country. The isolation period for the pets now in quarantine under old laws has been extended from six months to a year. Rabies...