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...WORLD is in flames all around Jimmy Carter. Our new Chinese friends and their Soviet competitors are caught up in a proxy war in Indochina, which could spill over into superpower conflict; the collapse of the Shah and the shaky status of Mideast peace negotiations have exposed U.S. impotence in the region; and there are other political kettles ready to boil over in Pakistan, southern Africa, and the Horn. In all of this, the U.S. has been unprepared, uneasy or unable to influence events as it would like. The death of Ambassador Adolph Dubs in Kabul, plus the take-over...
Please don't hate me," she cried as she ran from the room. All she had done was accidentally spill a glass of water on the old, brown carpeting in the office. It was the spontaneous cry of a small, 14-year-old girl going through a crisis. She was a runaway...
...storage-room spill of a quart of flammable acetone caused an hour-long evacuation of the Cambridge Electron Accelerator building yesterday morning. Officials said no one was injured in the incident, which occurred on the fourth floor of the Oxford St. research laboratory...
...Cauthen is less than an inch taller than he was when he won the Triple Crown, and he weighs only 104. Some have suggested that after Goodman had a heart attack in July, he stopped hustling for good mounts; and that after Cauthen injured his knee in an August spill, he stopped trying so hard to spur them on. Now Laffit Pincay Jr., the rider who replaced Cauthen on Affirmed for the Strub Stakes, wonders if The Kid is not "trying too hard...
...teeter devastatingly on the brink of an explosion. But in his all-out roles--in Silent Running, Black Sunday, Coming Home-- Dern makes an art of modern crack-up: shaking, sobbing, barnstorming, often hitting false notes, losing control, making us fear that both the actor and the character will spill over simultaneously, capturing the peculiar self-consciousness of a real-life breakdown, where neither the "audience" nor the "actor" knows where the pain ends and the performance begins...