Word: subs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beneath the painted sea on painted sticks, is also done from a toy. As a document of catastrophe, the scene is far from believable, but its curious power as an image comes partly from the sheer blatancy of its fiction. The fact that the plane, the liner and the sub are sso toylike carries one back to the I mock battles of the nursery, to the child's delight in constructing harmless miniature wrecks that dis charge the aggressions of child? hood. "As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport...
Demonstrating his passion for cold, Lamine Gueye, 23, an Alpine skier from sub-Sahara Africa who went on from water skiing after moving to Paris, was standing outside on the bitterest day of the Games eating two ice-cream cones at once. As the one-man Olympic team from Senegal, he suffers people's curiosity with a pleasant shrug. "I'm black and I'm a ski racer and I'm Senegalese and I'm tall, but I wish that I could just be a ski racer. I'm crazy about the downhill...
...lacks anything as sophisticated as a U.S. aircraft carrier. Soviet nuclear-powered submarines are thought to give off so much radiation that Soviet sailors morbidly joke that members of the northern fleet are easily identifiable be cause they glow in the dark. During the past eight months, one nuclear sub foundered in deep water off the Siberian pen insula of Kamchatka and a second was disabled off the U.S. East Coast when the craft's propeller became entangled in an undersea surveillance cable...
Then late last spring a Faculty Council sub-committee, appointed, to consider how best to handle non-resident students, recommended that transfer students be made eligible for housing and have a higher priority than other categories of students, such as those who failed to meet the deadline for housing contracts...
...that an exchange with the Vatican is no more objectionable than the diplomatic recognition we extend to the Soviet Union. However, there is a considerable difference. The Roman Catholic Church has 50 million adherents in the U.S. In certain international situations, the Ambassador from the Vatican could make demands sub rosa on the President. What other diplomatic representative could threaten to invoke the support of 50 million Americans...