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...earth, Firsoff points out in the British magazine Discovery, is based on the reaction of carbon compounds in water solution. But liquid water is not entirely necessary for life. Jupiter is apparently well stocked with ammonia (NH3), and Firsoff argues that the ammonia would be as satisfactory a solvent as water for supporting life...
...only increase." Though the U.S. may not always agree with every U.N. action, he said, the U.N. has no "stronger or more faithful member than the United States of America." Kennedy urged Congress to approve U.S. purchase of $100 million in new U.N. bonds to help keep the U.N. solvent...
While the U.S. continued its support of the U.N.-President Kennedy last week even decided to recommend that the U.S. purchase half the U.N.'s $200 million bond issue to keep it solvent-sharp words of dissent came from Britain. Foreign Secretary Lord Home bluntly criticized both the U.N. and many of its members for policies that, as he sees it, can destroy peace, not preserve...
...should come crashing down, if CBS should go bankrupt and his $100,000 a year be cut off. if Hollywood should evaporate, and the $650,000 house in Peekskill were to float away on the little stream it straddles, Jackie Gleason would still have a way to stay solvent. Since the age of 13, he has had something to fall back on. As Paul Newman says at the fadeout of The Hustler: "Fat man, you shoot a great game of pool...
...have let him escape. The reason Deraa was a turning point in Lawrence's life, Nutting argues, was the horrifying discovery that he was at heart a masochist. For years Lawrence had indulged himself in private scourgings in the desert to toughen himself. "Pain," wrote Lawrence, "was a solvent, a cathartic, almost a decoration to be fairly worn." Lawrence confessed that under the Turkish whiplashes and bayonets "a delicious warmth, probably sexual, was swelling through me." This realization converted Lawrence into the ruthless sadist who machine-gunned prisoners in cold blood...