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...sooner had the Japanese bombers hit Pearl Harbor than a rumor spread that they had been guided by Hawaii's Japanese farm workers' slashing giant arrows in sugarcane fields. Similar stories swept California and beyond. "The fifth- column activities added great confusion," said Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, the Pacific Fleet commander. The confusion was largely...
...epidemic has hit the U.S. in three waves. The first occurred among homosexual men and is now leveling off. The second swept through pockets of IV-drug users, especially in certain East Coast cities, and has yet to reach its peak. The third wave is just taking off among heterosexual men and women who have had sexual contact with one or more of the high-risk groups. The question now is how far -- and how fast -- it will travel into the rest of the population...
What I'm really trying to deal with is taboos. I think most writers try to approach taboos in their writing, but it's difficult because whether you're dealing with sex, death or politics, most taboos have been swept away now. So I'm still trying to come up with taboos that writers find difficult to approach, whether it's rediscovering [in The Poet's Bible] that there were writers of the Bible, which is a major taboo--the taboo that there really were men and women who wrote that...[it's the] same thing as trying to reclaim...
Rizzo would have made a difficult opponent for Edward G. Rendell, the Democratic candidate. But Rizzo died of a heart attack over the summer, and his replacement had none of his charisma. Rendell swept almost 70 percent of the vote...
Mayor Alice K. Wolf swept Tuesday's City Council elections with almost 2000 more number one votes than second-place incumbent Walter J. Sullivan, according to the preliminary totals released yesterday...