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...students came in kind of a swoop, and burst their way into the office. They sat down, sang some songs, and waited for the chancellor," Clifford said early yesterday evening...
Aliens didn't swoop down on Clarke's Sri Lanka home, so instead of Overmind the reader gets The View from Serendip, a hodgepodge of autobiographical trivia, tepid sea stories and futuristic speculation. The essays on space and technology go several light-years towards redeeming Serendip, but they don't go far enough...
...least said about me and my fathers trip from the Bureau of Manhattan to our new home, the soonest mended. In some way ether I or he got balled up on the grand concorpse and next thing you know we was thretning to swoop down on Pittsfield...
...turns out to be a street in Brooklyn Heights overlooking New York harbor, with Manhattan as a cinemascopic background. Superman, after a hard day's work going faster than a speeding bullet and leaping tall buildings at a single bound, spots a cat caught in a tree and swoops down to the rescue. How does he swoop? How, in fact, does he fly? Ah, that is the reason for the cloaks and the daggers: the producers are terrified a photographer will follow the reporter and show Superman being held up by a 100-ft. crane and wires. Says...
...will pass over or under 800 streams and rivers, including the Yukon. It will rise 4,800 ft. into the Brooks Mountain Range, swoop down east of Fairbanks, rise 3,300 ft. in the Alaska Range, and eventually drop into half-million-bbl. storage tanks in Valdez to await loading on tankers. The trip will take a month, longer if trouble turns up. But if all goes well, an uninterrupted ribbon of oil-9 million bbl. just to fill the pipeline-should stretch across the Alaskan tundra by mid-July. The flow will be stepped up gradually, reaching...