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...assuring the crime commission and the Chamber of Commerce that Miami Beach would receive the full cooperation of the Federal Government -which probably means anything up to and including troops in the event of a disturbance. Despite the anxieties that remained, it is doubtful that Miami Beach will resist the pressures of the Administration and the Governor...
...well that Houston could follow Orion's ascent for nearly two minutes, until the little craft was no more than a speck of light against the utter blackness of space. Later, after Orion locked with Casper in moon orbit, Young and Duke rejoined Mattingly, who could not resist twitting them about all the dust and debris they were bringing with them. Later, having nearly obscured their original check lists with fresh flight data radioed by Houston, Duke and Young apparently overlooked one item and forgot to close a circuit breaker in Orion. Result: when the Lunar Module was finally...
Though the two Queens were never within shouting distance of one another, romantic playwrights and librettists could not resist bringing them together in a dramatic confrontation. On this point, the new scriptwriters split. Hollywood does Schiller's and Donizetti's single meeting one better and stages two, both full of ear-splitting cliches and sounding uncannily like a commercial for Tide or Cheer. In Vivat, Bolt finds his own not particularly happy solution by placing Elizabeth and Mary onstage at the same time, but in separate scenes. TV's Elizabeth R, by far the most accurate...
...sentence, Orwell's outstanding quality was his ability to resist intellectual hooliganism and muddleheadedness of any sort. He lived through a decade in which the intelligentsia rampaged through the streets of Europe, hurling their ideas like rocks and firebombs through the windows of every institution on the continent; yet he seems never to have felt the temptation to convert his cleverness into a weapon. This is his chief gift to his readers. To understand how he came by it, we must follow the evolution of his political consciousness...
This wealth of grievances against the junta is slowly giving rise to spontaneous mass movements to resist the junta policies--by any means that fall within the presently very narrow boundaries of legality. And beneath this surface of legality lies the very blatant terrorism of the government on the one hand, and the underground organizations on the other. More than 200,000 patriots have been detained or interrogated by the Security or the military police for alleged anti-regime activities...