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When she finally dismisses her Japanese lover, she tells him, "Your name is Hiroshima," and offers a spark of hope that the long journey from Nevers has finally ended...
...Supported by the Navy and the National Science Foundation, Dr. Bernard Vonnegut of Arthur D. Little, Inc. has been trying for five years to hook up with significant amounts of atmospheric electricity. At first he tried flying tethered balloons into the base of thunderheads. Nothing much happened. A tiny spark jumped from the end of the mooring wire, but never a thunderbolt followed, not even when lightning was flashing all around. Apparently the wire drew ions out of the nearby parts of the cloud, thus insulating itself from full-scale lightning...
Except for an occasional spark of brilliance by Penn's sophomore tallback John Owens, the game was like this all afternoon. Penn had fewer than half as many first downs as the Crimson, gained than half as many yards rushing, was doubled in both passes completed and total passing yardage...
...Series and Cookie Lavagetto's 1947 double.* A home run, it broke up the ball game and broke Cincinnati's heart. "That was the turning point," said Manager Hutchinson later. "We never were the same after that. We got no lift, we had no spark, and we went nowhere...
...book storage. But it will also have office spaces for the Faculty she hopes to attract to the new House system, rooms for group study and seminars, and a forum room. The Institute for Independent Study will be placed in this building, where, hopefully, it will be available to spark the intellectual life of the new House system...