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...mentality of the obrero and the intellectual," Reid said. "They gave the workers a sense of consequence and led the intellectuals to see that no amount of theorizing would replace the economic realities." What seemed remarkable to everyone, he added, was that the strikes were spontaneous, that they sprang from the immediate misery of the workers, rather than from any preconceived plan of action...
Editor Fired. With eyebrows raised all over Colorado, and a TV-radio editorial reproof by Denver's KLZ ringing in his ears, President Newton finally got to work a fortnight ago and fired Althen from his job as editor. Up sprang student picket lines, with Mitcham bearing a derisive sign: "Senator, I will not silence them!" But the faculty senate, meeting behind doors under police guard, voted confidence in Newton...
Within minutes, a car bounced down the road. Dr. Alberto Echeverri Perea and two businessmen were driving to a nearby farm. The bandits sprang and yanked out the three men. They bound the men together by the neck, along with the previous victims. The 16 bound victims were then shoved against a barbed-wire fence and machine guns opened fire. The doctor screamed and threw himself to the ground, bringing the men tied to him down on top of him. Two bullets ripped his right shoulder, another grazed his right hand; the men atop the heap were dead...
...which nudged Mariner II toward outer space at an earth-escape velocity of 25,526 m.p.h.* Command to Jets. Mariner II was now under radio command from California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The first order was received and obeyed: large, flat solar panels (see diagram) sprang into position. In a series of maneuvers, Mariner's ten tiny nitrogen jets swiveled the spacecraft until its long axis pointed at the sun. So positioned, the solar panels could absorb the sun's energy, power the spacecraft's electrical system without draining its silver-zinc battery...
Industries in the past sprang up near ore beds and oil pools, or near railroads and rivers, but now tend to grow better where the climate is gentle. Planemakers settled in California for the good flying weather; largely because of aerospace and the sun, California by year's end will surpass New York as the nation's biggest state in terms of population. In the South, many states are also doing well because they have wooed industry by offering tax breaks, low-wage labor, right-to-work laws. The nation's booming service industries grow with...