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...what would in any case not have been heard, remained unsaid." Yet the writers part with good feelings all around: "After this, none of them would feel quite so isolated." They set off for then" different destinations, still harboring the dream of all poets, that they will sur vive through their words and works, that they "will mingle with eternity." Grass exposes their vanities and weaknesses, but he also, lovingly, perpetuates their hope...
...filed suit against the Federal Government-Watt wants to open four areas off the California coast to oil and gas exploration. According to some opponents, no more than 194 million bbl of oil lie under these areas, which are located near such scenic spots as Point Reyes and Big Sur. Those 194 million bbl. would meet U.S. needs for about twelve days. But Watt insists: "We must inventory our lands ... the only way to determine the quantities of oil and gas is to drill...
...real "show stopper," of course, might have been the landing. But it was breathtakingly "nominal," NASA lingo for "perfect." Crossing the coast below Big Sur at Mach 7, seven times the speed of sound, or about 5,100 m.p.h., Crippen crowed: "What a way to come to California!" Young lost his cool only after he had artfully landed Columbia right on the runway's center line. Eager to make an exit, he urged Houston to get the reception crews to speed up their "sniffing" chores-ridding the ship of noxious gases with exhausts and fans. When he was finally...
...issue came to a head in December, when Communist city officials of the Paris suburb of Vitry-sur-Seine launched a Christmas Eve attack on a housing complex where some 300 immigrant workers from Mali had just been installed. The Communists shouted threats and insults, severed electrical, telephone, water and heating lines, and rammed the building with a bulldozer. In sanctioning the outrage afterward, Marchais declared, "We do not want a new Harlem or a new Soweto in the Paris suburbs." By so nakedly exploiting the immigrant issue, Marchais obviously hoped to increase the Communist vote among lower-class suburbanites...
They do not remember that they have hired me when I arrive at 120 avenue Charles de Gaulle, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, site of the chic and glamourous International Herald Tribune. "We don't have any internship program"--not a welcome sentence when you are standing on foreign soil, thousands of miles from home, mute (for all practical purposes), and without friends or finances. The second worst sentence possible in this situation: "Oh, you're the typist...