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...residual minority tucked away in rural backwaters and urban ghettos: the Cumberland's dirt farmer, the Mississippi cotton chopper, the migrant farm worker in California's Imperial Valley, the illiterate Harlem dishwasher. They exist, as Michael Harrington wrote in The Other America, "beyond history, beyond progress, sunk in a paralyzing, maiming routine...
Probable Relation. To dispose safely of contaminated water containing the waste products of a deadly nerve gas and other products manufactured at the arsenal, the Army had sunk a 12,045-ft. shaft and pumped down the first 4,000,000 gallons of waste water in March 1962. The quakes began the next month; they have been rattling the area ever since at a rate that has varied with the amount of waste water disposed of in the well. Between April and September of 1965, for example, when the Army pumped 5,800,000 gallons per month into the earth...
...long run, however, such arguments are unlikely to be convincing to Massachusetts Hall. Harvard values its growth. It also values money, and a glance at the dollars already sunk into the development of the new "campus" dispels the notion that sentimentality will prevail. Not counting the money spent on William James, or the millions that will be spent on future buildings, Harvard has already committed $1 million for the Design School land and $2.8 million (it could go to three) for the underpass. And, as the years go by, the dollar commitment will go up, the number of alumni defending...
INADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE. Sunk in mediocrity, trapped in middle life, self-accusing and self-condemned, John Osborne's anti-hero spews out a caustically funny anathema on his world and his fate. In the lead, Nicol Williamson is scaldingly good...
...radar-directed approach was perfect until he was only a few hundred yards short of the runway. Then the control-tower radar scanner saw in horror that the huge DC-8 suddenly had sunk twenty feet below the correct glide path. "Level off," commanded the tower operator. Seconds later, the plane dropped off the radar screen. Too low, the plane's wheels apparently snagged on the breakwater at the edge of the runway, sending the DC-8 cartwheeling down the field...