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...dithers irresolutely, divided on economic policy and on Europe. The white-hot Wilson who fronted the technological challenge of his 1964 victory is a gray ash of his former self-and his credibility is as fragile. His is not the Cromwellian voice that might save the workers from the siren calls of industrial and political anarchy. No longer is there that "we are on our way" zest of ten years ago. Barring a hard-to-foresee miracle, there is a long, hot summer ahead for Britain...
...remember the day I filed for the firemen's examination as clearly as a king remembers his coronation ... I was ecstatic that I would soon be a part of the gong clangs and siren howls . . . climbing ladders, pulling hose, and saving children from the waltz of the hot-masked devil. Tearful mothers would embrace me, editorial writers would extol me, mayors would pin medals and ribbons to my breast...
Poulin happened onto his volunteer job one January afternoon in 1970, when he was driving his police car by the academy. He stopped and enthralled the children by letting them play with the flashing light and siren. School officials soon asked him if he would form a Scout troop for a group of difficult youngsters. Now Friday morning is the highlight of the children's week. While the task has cost Poulin money from his own pocket -and considerable emotional pain-he would not give it up for anything. He even manages to visit the school...
...dare to say at this point which voyage will ultimately prove more vital for the survival of mankind. Peace is a desperate need, but curiosity and adventure are profoundly encoded in the human brain. Peace is also a slow, perilous process of equilibrium, but deep space is a siren summoning the race to an unimaginable catalogue of unknowns. To reach the moon is only to touch the rattle dangling over the crib. The reach has lost its magic-or perhaps not yet really found it-because like infants, men scarcely can conceive of what lies beyond in space and time...
...himself out on the streets covering fires and chasing criminals. When Monitor was started on NBC radio, Chancellor was among the first newsmen assigned to that novel and imaginative operation. Driving a mobile unit rigged to look like a police car, complete with a flashing red light and a siren, Chancellor stayed tuned to the police radio band and often beat the cops to the scene of the crime...