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...shortage of helicopters is easily detected and quickly cured. But the ultimate effects of McNamara's decisions to scrap projects such as the Air Force's Dyna-soar spacecraft and to phase out long-range heavy bombers, will not be fully measurable for years. McNamara has been spending $7 billion a year for research and development, far more than had been allocated previously; yet he is accused of killing more projects than he carries out. Ten years hence, the nuclear aircraft engine, which he abandoned, may prove to be a vital necessity...
...doubters can now rest easy. In Nelly Sachs, the academy or its scouts turned up the real thing. Poetry is the power to make the spirit soar even when meaning is obscured by emotion, and her work fully measures up to that definition. Nelly Sachs and the Nobel Prize were properly joined...
...batter insists, the plate umpire will examine the ball-but by then the evidence has dried up or been wiped away by the catcher. In one game at Boston, visiting hitters complained so often that Red Sox pitchers were doctoring the ball that Umpire Hank Soar called for it, examined it carefully, found it clean-and in a gesture of resignation spat on it himself before firing it back to the mound...
Even so, it is no weekend hacker's jaunt. Though McKinley does not pose the classic technical challenges of the great Himalayan and Andean peaks, it is nonetheless known for the worst mountain weather in the world. Soar ing 20,320 ft. into the subArctic sky, McKinley is exposed to 150 m.p.h. winds that batter the mountain's upper reaches with sledgehammer blows and are even more fierce than McKinley's 72-below-zero cold...
...observer said, of "instant Stonehenge," or what. Moore saw it all as "a whole new vision of my work." Perhaps more important, it provided a whole new vision of Mozart's masterpiece, paring away all but the essentials of the drama, freeing the music to soar and reverberate in ominous vistas of eternity...