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Angel Island Publications in Sausalito, California, has sophisticated ideas about literature which may or may not prove solvent. As well as publishing Contact Magazine, a quarterly collection of new writing, art, and ideas, Angel has brought out in paperback a collection of pieces from the Western Review, a photographic essay entitled I Am A Lover, and a study of a city called Chicago: City On The Make...
...gradually cut down the nostrum peddlers' bombast. Labeling requirements forced Lydia Pinkham's heirs to note that her vegetable compound for "falling of the womb and other female weaknesses" contained "18% of alcohol," but they piously insisted that it was there "solely as a solvent and preservative." Parker's "True Tonic" for "in ebriates" gave its victims a hair of the dog with 41.6% alcohol (83 proof...
...white-dominated Central African Federation-made up of Nyasaland, Southern and Northern Rhodesia-last week seemed about to dissolve. In Northern Rhodesia, the solvent was made up of rioting, strikes and demonstrations that have cost a dozen lives this month. In Nyasaland, the solvent was fiery Dr. Hastings Banda, 56, U.S.-educated (University of Chicago, Nashville's Meharry Medical College) leader of the Malawi Congress Party...
Thinking less feverishly over the following months, Communist Schaff singled out what he decided was the reason for this philosophical blind spot and did his best to indicate the cure. Communism historically has no time or place for the individual because Marx saw society as the solvent for all individual problems. Private ethical dilemmas were submerged, first because the revolution had no time for such niceties, later because they were tainted by association with "idealistic" ideologies. But Philosopher Schaff recognizes that "as long as people die, suffer, lose their loved ones, just so long will questions about the meaning...
...industry is also about ready with another new way, called miscible-phase displacement. A solvent, such as propane or butane gas, is forced into an oil-bearing formation. The solvent washes the oil out of the rocks and sand, moving it to a producing well. If the technique, now under laboratory and limited field tests, proves to be economically feasible, it will bring about almost total recovery of oil in fields once abandoned...