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Near midnight the first C-47 transport planes reached their objective near Cherbourg. Men snapped their rip cords over static lines, waited, crouching. The command came, and they leaped. White, yellow and red parachutes blossomed in the night. Men by the thousands floated down upon captive France...
Both Anne and Olivia are very much products of their own time, and their different lifestyles and beliefs contrast sharply with Indian society, which seems hardly to change in 49 years. Although Indians wear Western clothing in 1982, their beliefs and social structure seem as static as the unbearable heat and dust which return with a violent brutality each year. Olivia and Anne, or the other hand, couldn't be more different physically and socially. Both must adhere to the mores of Indian and British societies which apply in their time, although they seem to share a restless vitality which...
...space is allotted to its graphics and photographs, a fact which in itself is not bad. But then USA Today's photographs for the most part don't duplicate the best photojournalism of, say, the old Life magazine, but rather the worst of the new Life: big, splashy, static color images that don't say much. The September 6 issue's front page features double column pictures of three people who knew a passenger on the downed Korean jet. "How the hell can you condone attacking a civilian jet?" asks Dennis Levesque. USA Today seems to believe that...
...static was heavy. The words that sounded above the crackle were an unfamiliar Russian military-aviation jargon. The pilots' voices were unemotional, as if they were reporting to their ground controllers on the progress of the most routine training exercise. All of which made the tape more eloquently horrifying when it was played in excerpt for a national television audience by President Reagan and in full for the United Nations Security Council by U.S. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick. In the translation, the pilot of the Soviet Sukhoi-15 interceptor who fired the missiles that blasted Korean Air Lines Flight...
Republicans may hope to gain the most, since many politically conservative states such as Idaho, Utah and Wyoming are growing fastest, while traditionally more liberal states (Massachusetts, New York) seem to have static or diminishing populations. On the other hand, the political tilt of some of the biggest boom states-California, Texas, Florida-could be leftward: the states' predominantly Democratic Hispanic populations are growing especially fast and it seems likely that in elections hence, a greater proportion of Hispanic Americans will vote. Hispanics, blacks and Asian Americans together will constitute a larger fraction of the country's population...