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...protest against the invasion. Rusk specifically rejected the contentions that Prague invited the intervention and that there had been any external threat to Czechoslovakia. Between the lines was Washington's all too apparent awareness that it could do as little in secret as it could openly to save Czechoslovakia from its fate...
...because of his continued-and unheeded-warn ings about America's crowded sky. Intelligent and hardworking, he is the quiet antithesis of Oklahoma's flamboyant king of the Senate, the late Bob Kerr. Yet back in the Sooner State, it was Kerr who took the stump to save Monroney's 1962 re-election bid. Now Kerr is gone, and his legacy of federal largesse haunts Monroney, who gets little credit for the dams, defense installations and grants that he has helped to sprinkle around the state...
Outside, monsoon rain was falling on a blue-and-white plaster Madonna whose forehead had been punctured by a bullet. Steiner was standing in the refectory, the strain of the war lining his face. "You must save Aba at any cost," pleaded Ojukwu. "You must hold the place-is that clear?" Steiner hesitated. "Mon colonel, I was only a sergeant in the Legion," he said. "I cannot command a division." Replied Ojukwu: "Oh, but you will. And you will hold...
...Cliches. In effect, The Last Landscape is a how-to book. It tells how to spot open land that is worth saving and how to save it. If anything, the job is easier than ever before. There is less undeveloped land available and a widespread respect for it-a reaction against the asphalt flats and dreary subdivisions that marked the great surge of postwar building. "Outrages are educational," says Whyte. Too, new state and federal laws designed to conserve open soace have been enacted, and many localities have devised ways of protecting or enlarging their holdings. Even subdividers have learned...
...Spencer and Freud. Yet fundamental religious doctrines-the existence of God, for example-play no real part in the philosophy of Scientology, which is concerned solely with the here and now and is based on the twin principles that "man is basically good" and that "the spirit alone may save or heal the body...